From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fca456da8e6ec463 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-26 07:50:06 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Latin and other irrelevant topics Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:37:00 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <94s5iq$rdk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Jan 26 15:37:00 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x51.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4558 Date: 2001-01-26T15:37:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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! Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/