[ExI] hot fire fail

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 16:18:41 UTC 2021


On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 15:54, Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Well, no, the short version is «Carthago delenda est» (Carthage is a
> delend) and the original is «Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse
> delendam» (Furthermore I consider Carthage to be a delend).  The longer
> contains the shorter as a subordinate clause, changing its syntax.
> --
> *\\*  Anton Sherwood  *\\*  www.bendwavy.org
> _______________________________________________


Agreed!  The complete (unbelievably complicated) explanation is here:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est>


:)    BillK



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