Re: Latin and other irrelevant topics

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <mailman.980514018.8909.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>,
  comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:

> Actually mine was: it was nil! For me that is just what it
> should have been. (I suppose I took French, English and
> Italian instead.)

Ah, so you were just guessing about the meaning of cf :-) And
here I was thinking you were quoting Ovid (though I must say
I cannot remember the use of this Latin word in Ovid, it does
not easily fit into Iambic pentameter -- well actually that's
not fair, it could fit, but I still don't remember him using
the term, and I had to learn thousands of lines of Ovid -- it
was the usual punishment at my school -- so while we were in
exile being punished, we got to learn all about his laments
of frigid winters in the North :-)

It's a good thing I changed the subject line of this thread!



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