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Vanitas vanitatum, est omnia vanitas....
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Victor Victrola Vanity!
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Lucius1958
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Re: Victor Victrola Vanity!
And for those who don't read Latin?Lucius1958 wrote:Vanitas vanitatum, est omnia vanitas....
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Re: Victor Victrola Vanity!
Can anyone guess what they are going to use crap-a-phones for---to go along with the vanities?
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Re: Victor Victrola Vanity!
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ....Lucius1958 wrote:Vanitas vanitatum, est omnia vanitas....
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Re: Victor Victrola Vanity!
Shouldn't that be "Vanitas vanitatorum,..."? Or is my Latin rusty? (vanitas, vanitatis, etc.)
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Re: Victor Victrola Vanity!
"Vanitatum" is the correct genitive plural for that declension.Henry wrote:Shouldn't that be "Vanitas vanitatorum,..."? Or is my Latin rusty? (vanitas, vanitatis, etc.)
(sigh) I used to be able to toss off a running translation of a page of Vergil, back in the day...)
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Re: Victor Victrola Vanity!
They would make interesting urinals...emerson wrote:Can anyone guess what they are going to use crap-a-phones for---to go along with the vanities?
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
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Re: Victor Victrola Vanity!
You're a better man than I, Bill. Miss Cooper, my 8th-9th grade Latin teacher, would be ashamed of me!Lucius1958 wrote:"Vanitatum" is the correct genitive plural for that declension.Henry wrote:Shouldn't that be "Vanitas vanitatorum,..."? Or is my Latin rusty? (vanitas, vanitatis, etc.)
(sigh) I used to be able to toss off a running translation of a page of Vergil, back in the day...)
Bill
(Miss Cooper's first name was Ursula, and she was truly a "she-bear" when it came to precision! I am forever in her debt for my life-long interest in words and languages.)
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Re: Victor Victrola Vanity!
Sorry to steer the thread off-topic, but my language skills pale before my brother Otto's (classics doctorate from Yale, also speaks fluent Iban)... 
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