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

[Victor Steinbok]

I think, you mean, "It doesn't parse the mutter."

     VS-)

On 5/21/2012 12:38 AM, Eric Nielsen wrote:
> It doesn't parse muster.
>
> Eric
>
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Neal Whitman<nwhitman at ameritech.net>wrote:
>
>> You're right. It's not funny, because it's bogus Latin. If it had been real
>> Latin, like Henry Beard's Latin for All Occasions, it would have been
>> funny.
>> If it had been the "Romanes eunt domus" part of Monty Python's Life of
>> Brian, it would have been funny, because "Romani ite domum" really is what
>> it would have been in classical Latin. But this grasping "Illegitimi non
>> carborundum" phonus balonus (more bogus Latin, via P.G. Wodehouse) is not
>> funny.
>>
>> Neal

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