decimate

[Eric Nielsen]

I can only think of correcting the oft quoted "Illegitimi non carborundum"
to the more proper
Illegitimis non carborundum (est) which uses the dative of agent ; > }

Eric

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> ....(We sure can't use what we know about the "future passive periphrastic
> indicative") (Did I just make that up? Can you be sure?)....
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