Ten Commandments

"locutus quoque est Dominus cunctos sermones hos
we speak likewise is God altogether the Gods this.

Well, Min, Latin is among the many things you apparently don't know!

"Michael A. Covington" writes:

"locutus quoque est Dominus cunctos sermones hos
we speak likewise is God altogether the Gods this.

Well, Min, Latin is among the many things you apparently don't know!



I don't really get the point of his post. Why massacre the Ten
Commandments by badly translating them to and from Latin? Did I miss
something?

And another thing, why does Min keep fudging his identity when he posts?
It seems to me that if a person wants to filter out his posts, Min would
not want to bother trying to fool anyone. Sure, post to the ones who
give a %^&* but changing identity to try and fool the scoring and kill
files only makes those who don't like him feel it even more stongly.
So, really what he must be doing is just trying to bother people which
flies in the face of his claimed desire to teach us.

Honestly, I am not trying to be sarcastic or rhetorical. I actually
don't understand the reasoning.

Min? Why are you so intentionally bothersome? How old are you?

-Al A.
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"Al Arduengo" wrote in message
...
"Michael A. Covington"
writes:

"locutus quoque est Dominus cunctos sermones hos
we speak likewise is God altogether the Gods this.

Well, Min, Latin is among the many things you apparently don't know!

I don't really get the point of his post. Why massacre the Ten
Commandments by badly translating them to and from Latin? Did I miss
something?

I don't think anyone understands Min's posts. However, if you look at them
in a fixed-width font, you see that his real game is that he is typing an
equal number of characters on each line. I suppose that's a sign of
something...

Given that we have the Ten Commandments in Hebrew, I wouldn't go to the
Latin Vulgate (translated from Hebrew to Latin by Jerome c. 400 AD) to find
out what they say. But if you do, you find out that they say the same
thing.

Min's translation, on the other hand, is awful.

"Locutus est" means "(he) spoke," not "we speak."

"Quoque" means "also," not "likewise" (which is admittedly close).

"Dominus" means "(the) Lord," not "God" (again, close but inaccurate).

"Cunctos" (admittedly postclassical) means "all," not "altogether."

And "sermones" is something like "speeches" or "utterances," not "Gods."

So:

"locutus quoque est Dominus cunctos sermones hos" =

"The Lord also said all these things":

(where by "things" I render a word that denotes things said).

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 21:14:08 -0500, "Michael A. Covington"
wrote:


"Al Arduengo" wrote in message
...
"Michael A. Covington"
writes:

"locutus quoque est Dominus cunctos sermones hos
we speak likewise is God altogether the Gods this.

Well, Min, Latin is among the many things you apparently don't know!

I don't really get the point of his post. Why massacre the Ten
Commandments by badly translating them to and from Latin? Did I miss
something?

I don't think anyone understands Min's posts. However, if you look at them
in a fixed-width font, you see that his real game is that he is typing an
equal number of characters on each line. I suppose that's a sign of
something...

Given that we have the Ten Commandments in Hebrew, I wouldn't go to the
Latin Vulgate (translated from Hebrew to Latin by Jerome c. 400 AD) to find
out what they say. But if you do, you find out that they say the same
thing.

Min's translation, on the other hand, is awful.

"Locutus est" means "(he) spoke," not "we speak."

I thought it meant "I am Borg"

ducks and runs


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On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 02:50:59 GMT, Wally Anglesea™
wrote:

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 21:14:08 -0500, "Michael A. Covington"
wrote:


cut some latin


Given that we have the Ten Commandments in Hebrew, I wouldn't go to the
Latin Vulgate (translated from Hebrew to Latin by Jerome c. 400 AD) to
find
out what they say. But if you do, you find out that they say the same
thing.

wasn't the first translation of the bible into Greek anyway?

"Locutus est" means "(he) spoke," not "we speak."

I thought it meant "I am Borg"

ducks and runs

Now that would explain the ever changing senders of the posts while the
contents (if any) stay the same.. Lots of remotely controlled drones
posting things thought up by one mother of an addled mind...

I'm scared.

J.


--
Joerg Glissmann

remove pants to reply..

Given that we have the Ten Commandments in Hebrew, I wouldn't go to the
Latin Vulgate (translated from Hebrew to Latin by Jerome c. 400 AD) to
find
out what they say. But if you do, you find out that they say the same
thing.

wasn't the first translation of the bible into Greek anyway?

Yes, it was translated into Greek (the Septuagint, c. 250 BC) before it was
translated in to Latin (c. 400 AD). And the New Testament is written in
Greek.

"Al Arduengo" wrote in message
...
"Michael A. Covington"
writes:
I don't really get the point of his post. Why massacre the Ten
Commandments by badly translating them to and from Latin? Did I miss
something?

Nope, with mini, there is nothing to miss.

And another thing, why does Min keep fudging his identity when he posts?
It seems to me that if a person wants to filter out his posts, Min would
not want to bother trying to fool anyone. Sure, post to the ones who
give a %^&* but changing identity to try and fool the scoring and kill
files only makes those who don't like him feel it even more stongly.
So, really what he must be doing is just trying to bother people which
flies in the face of his claimed desire to teach us.

I think you identified the real purpose there.

Honestly, I am not trying to be sarcastic or rhetorical. I actually
don't understand the reasoning.

Min? Why are you so intentionally bothersome? How old are you?

Old enough to reach mommy's computer

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In article ,
says...
Honestly, I am not trying to be sarcastic or rhetorical. I actually
don't understand the reasoning.

That's because there is no reasoning there to be understood. He's a
loon.

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"Al Arduengo" wrote in message
...
Honestly, I am not trying to be sarcastic or rhetorical. I actually
don't understand the reasoning.

Al
The reason why you cannot understand Min's reasoning is because you are
sane, and DJ Min is mentally ill. Unfortunately for the rest of us, mental
illness often does not preclude someone from being able to use the internet
and post messages on usenet. The sad thing is that because of Min's mental
illness, he is not capable of recognizing the fact that his posts are
unintelligable gibberish. While he is annoying, as net kooks go he is
relatively harmless. Net kooks, trolls, and spammers are just the price that
we have to pay to have a free and open forum for communication. Take
care....

Randy L.

"Michael A. Covington" wrote
in message ...
"locutus quoque est Dominus cunctos sermones hos
we speak likewise is God altogether the Gods this.

Well, Min, Latin is among the many things you apparently don't know!


Hmmm.

Copy the phrase, go to Google, paste it into the search box, and see what
happens.

"locutus quoque est Dominus cunctos sermones hos"

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Joe S.