Kevster...

[Tommy Boomfiger]

i can read your sig, does that mean that im overeducated?

:D

[ufcrusher]

Hmm, never noticed that before, but easily readable. All one needs is the ability to understand several different languages. Come on now make it more difficult there.

[Tommy Boomfiger]

actually, its just one language. :hihi:

[Hiro]

what language is it?

[Tommy Boomfiger]

Si hoc legere scis numium eruditionis habes

latin, translated it says "if you can read this, you are overeducated"

[Hiro]

Originally posted by Tommy Boomfiger
Si hoc legere scis numium eruditionis habes

latin, translated it says "if you can read this, you are over educated"
thanks. :)

[Kevster]

Originally posted by Tommy Boomfiger
i can read your sig, does that mean that im overeducated?

:D

Likely, yes. ;)

I put it up there as kind of an educational joke just to see if anyone would bite - it took people about 4 months to notice (or people will say, "oh yeah I saw that a few moths ago, but I didn't say anything".) Riiiiiight.

[Hiro]

GAM and Kevster, I apologize for doing this, but Kevster has email to him disabled and I just formatted and lost my address book. Kevster, can you email me please?

[email protected]

[Grimm]

You can puzzle out a lot of latin just because our language is latin based... and a lot of us are exposed to quite a bit of spanish.

But then I don't pay much attention to sigs unless there are scantily clad women in them.

[Merlin]

:wavey: Several years of Jesuit education means I have taken Latin. But that was a long time ago... :disa:

[Kevster]

Originally posted by Corsec
GAM and Kevster, I apologize for doing this, but Kevster has email to him disabled and I just formatted and lost my address book. Kevster, can you email me please?

[email protected]

That's wierd, I thought I enabled that.

YGM

[ribitch]

i figured that was just random letters thrown together just to have people guessing. shows you how much latin i know

[Sir_Froggy]

Originally posted by Grimm
You can puzzle out a lot of latin just because our language is latin based... and a lot of us are exposed to quite a bit of spanish.



I don't see any spanish in "Si hoc legere scis numium eruditionis habes." expect the first word "Si"

[Kevster]

Originally posted by Merlin
:wavey: Sever years of Jesuit education means I have taken Latin. But that was a long time ago... :disa:

I have survived over 11 years of Jesuit education!
(HS, College and Grad School)

And before that, I survived 8 years at Our Lady of Psychological Warfare! I liked the Jesuits much better than the so-called Sisters of Mercy!

[Kevster]

Originally posted by Grimm
I don't pay much attention to sigs unless there are scantily clad women in them.

AMEN to that! :D

[Merlin]

Originally posted by Kevster
so-called Sisters of Mercy!

Sisters of Mercy - ha! Bet being merciful didn't stop them from :bonk:


It didn't stop the Sisters of Charity :hmm:

[sbp]

They did show mercy and were charitable, both you guys could have gotten it much worse! http://sbp777.homestead.com/files/wink2.gif

[Kevster]

Originally posted by sbp
They did show mercy and were charitable, both you guys could have gotten it much worse! http://sbp777.homestead.com/files/wink2.gif

Trust me, there was nothing merciful about Sister Eileen Butler from Limerick, Ireland!

[coleslaw]

Originally posted by Kevster
I put it up there as kind of an educational joke just to see if anyone would bite - it took people about 4 months to notice (or people will say, "oh yeah I saw that a few moths ago, but I didn't say anything".) Riiiiiight. I would have noticed this right away if I did not have signatures disabled. I have 5 years of Latin behind me. Overeducated? Perhaps! ;)

[Merlin]

Originally posted by coleslaw
I have 5 years of Latin behind me. Overeducated? Perhaps! ;)

Five years ?! Thats crazy. I've been scarred with "only" two. :eek:

[molecularfire]

Originally posted by Grimm
You can puzzle out a lot of latin just because our language is latin based... and a lot of us are exposed to quite a bit of spanish.

But then I don't pay much attention to sigs unless there are scantily clad women in them.
Not if "our" language is english. English is a germanic based. The romance languages are Spanish, French, Portugeese, Romanian and Italian. :)

[Kevster]

Originally posted by molecularfire

Not if "our" language is english. English is a germanic based. The romance languages are Spanish, French, Portugeese, Romanian and Italian. :)

That explains why German made so much sense to me in college and why I can read Dutch reasonably well...

:D

[hapoo]

German is cool but sometimes i have a problem reading it cause they take all the words in a sentance and slap them together with no spaces. I've never taken any courses in it but i can get a general idea.

[Kevster]

Originally posted by hapoo
German is cool but sometimes i have a problem reading it cause they take all the words in a sentance and slap them together with no spaces. I've never taken any courses in it but i can get a general idea.

And the funny thing is, they do that all the time! I usually just break out my dictionary then. I like to watch German films to keep my comprehension skills in practice.

The wierd thing about foreign languages (once you start understanding the cultural idioms) is that there are many things that are funny in that language that you can't readily explain to someone who doesn't know the language. It's hard sometimes having to explain a joke to someone because I understood it in German, not in English translated from German. That draws from the old phrase of ideas or thoughts being "lost in the translation".

[coleslaw]

Originally posted by molecularfire
Not if "our" language is english. English is a germanic based. The romance languages are Spanish, French, Portugeese, Romanian and Italian.I can't say that I agree with you. First of all, modern American English is a combination of Germanic, Romance, and "Renaissance" influences, i.e. Old English. Secondly, over sixty percent of our English vocabulary words are derived from Latin words. That in itself implies that English is not soley germanic based. :)

[molecularfire]

Vocabulary... yes. It's kinda hard to find any modern language that doesn't have a lot of roman influences. However, if you look at the syntax... it's much more germanic than romance. That and the fact that we don't conjugate everything in sight. :)

[Ladogaboy]

Originally posted by Sir_Froggy


I don't see any spanish in "Si hoc legere scis numium eruditionis habes." expect the first word "Si"

Si in Spanish = if

Habes is similar to Haber (infact it is the same because it is in the second person) in Spanish which = have or in this case, you have.

For legere, think of ledger... i.e. something you read.

For eruditionis, think of erudite... i.e. eductated or having an abundance of knowledge.

Hoc, I believe, means a fact or something along those lines.

It has been a long time since I've taken any Latin, but what I got out of it was "If you can read this, you are something something educated or knowledgeable."

:shrug: