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greg_parkerAdmin- Posts : 8368
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Location : Orange, NSW, Australia 
DUUM for DUUMIES
Sun 06 Aug 2023, 1:13 am
linda o'hara aka leslie sharp wrote:A cursory google translate:
Latin French
duum deux
Both Rene and Pierre spent a good deal of their adolescent years in Europe. The datebook reflects a number of similar quirks. "merde merde," "vu je" "di coup de grace."
Linda posted the above at the ed forum in reply to Jeremy B carefully explaining that
"duum is not the Latin word for 'two' or 'deux'. The Latin word for 'two' is duo, not duum. The latter was an archaic, i.e. non-standard, version of duorum, the genitive form of duo. It means something like 'of the two', and makes no sense in the context of 'rifle into building / [illegible] DPD"
And he is quite right. I believe Linda is well aware of this and has tried to hide behind sloppy googling as an excuse - thus her "cursory" claim.
A more rigorous search gives us an example of how it is used.
"locutusque est dominus ad mosen post mortem duum filiorum aaron quando offerentes ignem alienum interfecti sun"
which translates as
"and the lord spake unto moses after the death of the two sons of aaron, when they offered before the lord, and died"
Google translate is not quite right on this.
Which begs the question -- is Linda claiming Lafitte was googling in 1963?
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Re: DUUM for DUUMIES
Sun 06 Aug 2023, 1:40 am
Maybe Lafitte had a time machine that he used to travel to our era and used a modern computer to do a Google search.
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Re: DUUM for DUUMIES
Sun 06 Aug 2023, 1:57 am
That may well end up included in the 2nd edition.Vinny wrote:Maybe Lafitte had a time machine that he used to travel to our era and used a modern computer to do a Google search.
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Re: DUUM for DUUMIES
Sun 06 Aug 2023, 2:50 am
The second edition will be renamed so I have been told to: "Ze Fuhrer ist amongst us".
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Re: DUUM for DUUMIES
Sun 06 Aug 2023, 5:53 pm
As someone who suffered through the ancient indignities of a classical education ( standing up as our begowned master swept in, " Salvete discipulii " he"d bark, in response we would chime, " Salvete magister ") I can assure Ms Sharp/ O ' Hara that Jeremy is absolutely correct.
It's one thing trying to pass off a dodgy datebook to a gaggle of gullible baby boomers, but it's another thing entirely trying to bullshit a British schoolboy when it comes to Latin..
It's one thing trying to pass off a dodgy datebook to a gaggle of gullible baby boomers, but it's another thing entirely trying to bullshit a British schoolboy when it comes to Latin..
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Re: DUUM for DUUMIES
Mon 07 Aug 2023, 6:34 pm
greg_parker wrote:I believe Linda is well aware of this and has tried to hide behind sloppy googling as an excuse
But it must be true - she read it on the internet!
Leslie or Linda isn't very good at dealing with inconvenient evidence or giving straight answers to reasonable questions, is she? One thing she is good at is quoting her holy book and the probably fake document it's based on. Rather like Mr Hargrove. I wonder what he's doing these days.
alex_wilson wrote:It's one thing trying to pass off a dodgy datebook to a gaggle of gullible baby boomers, but it's another thing entirely trying to bullshit a British schoolboy when it comes to Latin.
Ita vero, Alex! Romanes eunt domus? Romani, ite domum!
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Re: DUUM for DUUMIES
Mon 07 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
I'm afraid ive blocked all of my traumatic memories ( it could have been much MUCH worse though, I was almost sent to a certain all boys boarding school of grim repute, Armstrong alone knows how fucked up I would have been after six years of rugger buggery)
The only Latin I know now is " Irrumado Credibiltate "
Fuck Credibility.
The motto emblazoned on the Doyle coat of arms. Along with a chicken sinister, a pig rampant dexter and a Sanibel unicorn escutcheon
The only Latin I know now is " Irrumado Credibiltate "
Fuck Credibility.
The motto emblazoned on the Doyle coat of arms. Along with a chicken sinister, a pig rampant dexter and a Sanibel unicorn escutcheon
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A fez! A fez! My kingdom for a fez!!
The last words of King Richard HARVEY Plantagenet III
Bosworth Field 1485
Is that a doppelganger in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
Artist, poet, polymath, cancer research prodigy Judyth Vary Baker's first words to Lee HARVEY Oswald. New Orleans April 1963
For every HARVEY there must be an equal and opposite LEE
Professor Sandy Isaac Newton Laverne Shirley Fonzie Larsen's
Famous 1st Law of Doppelganging
" To answer your question I ALWAYS look for mundane reasons for seeming anomalies before considering sinister explanations. Only a fool would do otherwise. And I'm no fool" The esteemed Professor Larsen From his soon to be published self help book " The Trough of Enlightenment "( Trine Day Foreword Vince Palamara)
" Once you prove Davidson's woman's face then Stanton's breasts follow naturally " Brian Doyle
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