Vincent Manis scripsit: > A rough paraphrase of the beginning of Sellar and Yeatman's classic > _1066 And All That_ goes that Julius Caesar said to the Britons > `Veni, Vidi, Vici', which, being classically trained, he pronounced > `Weeny, Weedy, and Weak-y'. Once they realized he had divided them > into Three Parts, they immediately surrendered. (Don't miss this book > if you are a fan either of British history or horrendous pedagogy, it > is hilarious either way.) Don't worry, they get the rest of history > about as wrong as that.
It's great, yes. There's an American analogue called _It All Started With Columbus_. > Of course, from my own Latin studies, the best howler is the classic > `Sic transit gloria mundi' (`Gloria got very ill on the bus on Monday'). Yeah, but someone made that up, it's not a genuine howler. -- It was impossible to inveigle John Cowan <[email protected]> Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Into offering the slightest apology For his Phenomenology. --W. H. Auden, from "People" (1953) _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
