"Don't let the bastards get you down!" 1945

[Geoff Nathan]

Regardless of the word order (Latin is a 'free word order language, remember...), it's still an error. Unless there's only one bastard... Somebody should make the set designer write it out properly one hundred times. I bemoan the ignorance of the younger generation. Geoffrey S. Nathan Faculty Liaison, C&IT and Professor, Linguistics Program http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/ +1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT) +1 (313) 577-8621 (English/Linguistics) ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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> The words clearly read:
> NON ILLEGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM.
> Sorry for the slip. It's still the fifth century BCE, however.
> JL
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > In the recent film of _Coriolanus_ (2011), the words colorfully
> > sprayed on
> > a bullet-scarred wall in the territory of the Volsci clearly read:
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> > ILLEGITIMUS NON CARBORUNDUM.
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> > That would have been in the fifth century BCE.
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> > JL
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> > > De bastardibus non est disputandum.
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