This is why Etymology can be so important, so that we aren't bugged by the words....

One of my favorites is conspire; meaning "to breath together". -Sear

And of course that comes from the fact that in "conspiring" you would be 'together, often huddled or secreted away from authorities.

The one problem that most of us have with Latin, is the fact that it is not 'Context' Sensitive necessarily, i.e. the who doing what were, can be end up "where the who is doing what", "What the who is doing where",  "doing what by who where" all end up saying the same thing regardless of the Verb - noun positions.

How times have changed. Not so very long ago it would be assumed that educated men would have a certain amount of Latin and Greek (and for anyone considering a scientific subject they are still always beneficial since so much technical terminology is rooted in them) as a given; nowadays it seems Latin is reserved for use as a military unit's motto and amusing mock-Latin proverbs that bounce round the internet.

The reason that "Latin" is a dead Language is not because it is not spoken or in use, but because it 'does not dynamically change' according to the speaker, or the time. It has been so well 'agreed upon' that 'everyone' knows it and it is pretty common. In other words very few 'new words or ideas are introduced' as compared to English in which the word count grows almost daily.

A side note is that Latin is now becoming the 'lingua Franca' of diplomats, much like French was for some time. It is doing so, because it hasn't the baggage that comes when two people use another common tongue E.g. Farsi, where a word may mean something to one person, but is rude or insulting to another, e.g. "Ignorant".  When two people have to stop and think about a word, they tend to take it at face value, rather than assume the other person meant to be insulting, rude or derogatory.

but the translation "ad infernum cum" sounds like a link to a "hot porn" web site. LOL.
Oh then your serious not going to like "Sum cum Laud" which sounds more like the noises made while making whoopy (i.e. Some cum loud)


It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK?
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