[PenultimateManStanding]

Latin for too little, too late. Parum gives us words like poor, impoverished, in fact it comes from an indo-european root pou which means few, little. Some of the diverse words we get from that root are foal, puerile, pony, paraffin, encyclopedia, it's really weird how language works. I won't do the same thing for tardus except to say that we all know about tardy bells. As for quoque, that's the hard part. It's what relates the words and gives meaning to how they are coupled. In this sense it means 'yes and what's more'.

[PenultimateManStanding]

It makes a good motto for 'mitigation'.

[PenultimateManStanding]

nope, far from it.

[dinopello]

Not sure this is the right passage (I ontday eakspay atinlay).


Ut melius, quidquid erit, pati!

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', ' ')(I ontday eakspay atinlay).

[TheDude]

OlfI trolfied tolfo lolfearn Golfermolfan olfin holfigh scholfool. Nolfo solfuch lolfuck.

There are lots of sites with witty Latin quotes like my sig. Dunno about your choice, PMS, how the hell do you pronounce "quoque"? People had a helluva time initially with something as simple as "Ahmadinejad."

How about:

Ad vitam paramus - We are preparing for life

Amicus humani generis - A friend of the human race (philanthropist)

Liberate te ex inferis - Save yourself from hell

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur - The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived!

Apudne te vel me? - Your place or mine?

Luke sum ipse patrem te - Luke, I am your father. (Star Wars)

Latin Quotes & Phrases

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', ' ')Dunno about your choice, PMS, how the hell do you pronounce "quoque"?

[jboogy]

Apropos for the neocons , veni,vedi,vici. not sure of the spelling

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jboogy', ' ')veni,vedi,vici. not sure of the spelling

[PenultimateManStanding]

btw, I got into a bit of a tiff with Conn Iggulden, the British author of the popular series of novels about Julius Caesar, at his web site. I maintained that his novels grossly misrepresented the characters of Brutus and Cato the Younger. Which he did of course and I was absolutely right. His response was to first say that I don't know about the problems of an author and the choices that must be made, and then to lock the thread where we were discussing it. Touchy Brit.

[Carlhole]

Wtoiuht fhrehtr eolairotban, it is dsomnetblrae taht the enoxpanitel pshae of the iurisdntal gotwrh wchih has datomined haumn atviticy dirung the lsat cpuloe of cirteneus is dwaniwrg to a cosle. - M. Knig Hbeubrt

[PenultimateManStanding]

ok, this is the game. gldfljktrltjldlk;s;s;lf;ljf;ljf;ljdl;kjsljkhljrhkjr.

[jboogy]

PMS, I try reed you last werds on post but wen i reedded it i feeld eelektrik pathwayz in my hed shorted out like old fraid wyrez...........oh,no bludd iz squrtiing out noze, summone hepp me!

[TheDude]

This is getting like the UN. What is that, Uniwese?

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'o')k, this is the game. gldfljktrltjldlk;s;s;lf;ljf;ljf;ljdl;kjsljkhljrhkjr.

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'W')toiuht fhrehtr eolairotban, it is dsomnetblrae taht the enoxpanitel pshae of the iurisdntal gotwrh wchih has datomined haumn atviticy dirung the lsat cpuloe of cirteneus is dwaniwrg to a cosle. - M. Knig Hbeubrt

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'o')k, this is the game. gldfljktrltjldlk;s;s;lf;ljf;ljf;ljdl;kjsljkhljrhkjr.

[Baldwin]

Then there is the phrase we should all keep in mind:

Remember, thou art mortal!

Oh and PMS, you look remarkably like a history teacher at my Catholic (Marianist) High school on Long Island, NY. Your picture and even glasses are identical. (Your picture pops up occassionally on the peak oil is you! picture thing on the left side of the screen.)

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'O')h don't be like that. I posted this thread because I thought it was a cool Latin phrase to answer to all the 'relocalize' and 'mitigation' folks. The 'Oil Depletion Protocols' and all that. Let me ask you something, Carlhole: don't you find this current situation to be utterly absurd?