[Sussex] Latin signatures!

[Macdonald-Wallace, Matthew J]

There are only 10 types of people in the world that understand binary, those
that do, and those that don't... 

;o)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Derek Harding [mailto:derek at lagham.uklinux.net]
>Sent: 03 March 2003 16:11
>To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Sussex] Latin signatures!
>
>
>I wasn't sure if Claybrook were solo or not - I think 
>Thompsons had a hand before also being taken over by H-R?
>
>> > > "cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum et ad inferos" 
>> > Roughly it translates as "Whoever is alone, his is the way to 
>> > heaven and to hell"
>> 
>> Hmmm, not bad, according to Sarah it means:
>> "To whomsoever the soil belongs, he owns also to the sky and 
>to the depths."
>Nice - I thought that was the implication of solum (as opposed 
>to solus) but I couldn't think where est fitted as that only 
>translates as part of the verb to be. I'll have to go back to 
>school - it's over 30 years since I failed Latin. I stick with 
>Heaven and Hell (out of cussedness) but like the Englishness 
>of using "is" as a possessive. Being ex-legal, I should have 
>been able to get it right!
>> 
>> Generally if my wife responds to questions about the law in 
>latin then it
>> can be taken as a code for "Go away and stop asking stupid 
>questions", it's
>> kind of her lawyer equivalent of "There are only 10 types of 
>people in the
>> world..."
>
>Which 10 would that be?
>
>-- 
>Best wishes,
>Derek
>
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