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One of my co-workers is deaf in one ear. "We have a family saying," he told me: "If you say, 'Do you want some of this?' then I can hear you, but if you say, 'Give me some of that,' then I can't."
The kidlet and I got to talking about high school Latin, as one does, and I dug out my graduation memory book because I remembered I had written down some memories and quotes from Latin class. I was hoping I had recorded some of the intentionally bad translations that my hapless friends made instead of actually learning Latin ("Soldiers in the military never return your ducks"), but I hadn't. I had, though, recorded, without context, a footnote to something or other:
I had forgotten that I received the Class Mars Award for Most Belligerent Student, but there it is, with signatures from the instructor, the president of the Latin Club, the Dictator of Rome, and Ronald Reagan.
The kidlet and I got to talking about high school Latin, as one does, and I dug out my graduation memory book because I remembered I had written down some memories and quotes from Latin class. I was hoping I had recorded some of the intentionally bad translations that my hapless friends made instead of actually learning Latin ("Soldiers in the military never return your ducks"), but I hadn't. I had, though, recorded, without context, a footnote to something or other:
1 With a strange and fierce viper-like monster.
I had forgotten that I received the Class Mars Award for Most Belligerent Student, but there it is, with signatures from the instructor, the president of the Latin Club, the Dictator of Rome, and Ronald Reagan.