Re: Re: dulce decorum

2000-09-13 Thread Brad DeLong
Dulce ET Decorum est pro patria mori. touche...

Re: Re: dulce decorum

2000-09-13 Thread Jim Devine
At 10:04 AM 9/13/00 -0400, you wrote: Dulce ET Decorum est pro patria mori. I know: I was trying to say "sweet decorum," though perhaps Justin will want to reenact the scene from "Monty Python's Life of Brian," in which the Roman guard lectures Brian on the poor Latin grammar of his anti-Roman

Re: Re: Re: dulce decorum

2000-09-13 Thread Carrol Cox
One of the weaknesses of internet communication is that the frequency of typographical errors tends to preempt a fundamental principle of interpretation: Assume, unless there is definite proof otherwise, that the writer not only means what he/she says but knows what he/she means. This principle

Re: Re: dulce decorum

2000-09-13 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: You should read more carefully. I wasn't saying that you should be filtered, Saith Brad: You need to write more carefully. You were: NĂ©stor wrote: (The internal structure of Argentina is not the business of interlopers from the imperialist world -- and interloping from alleged

Re: Re: Re: dulce decorum

2000-09-13 Thread JKSCHW
In a message dated 9/13/00 11:51:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know: I was trying to say "sweet decorum," though perhaps Justin will want to reenact the scene from "Monty Python's Life of Brian," in which the Roman guard lectures Brian on the poor Latin grammar