[lit-ideas] Grice on appositives
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:12:42 EST
In a message dated 2/9/2010 3:43:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx writes:
appositives*:
We Vikings love to sack
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Good point. Of course unnecessary in Latin:
Barbari rapimus
"We barbarians rape"
--- The 'we' is not necessary since it's understood by the -mus of the verb
ending. Needless to say (then why say it, as Geary often retorts) the
'fluid ruling' that Yost mentions regarding the existence or lack thereof of
the Oxford Comma:
Barbari, rapimus
is also unnecessary (on account of the Romans find it very _hard_ to carve
a comma on stone and marble, etc.
The correct Latin, due to their antipathy for lowe-cases gets
BARBARI RAPIMVS
Now, in case what we mean is
We Romans can rape a Viking too.
They would clearly mark the 'barbaros' in accusative
ROMANI BARBAROS RAPIMVS
I take as otiose that it's a barbarus saying that since per definitionem
they can't (speak Latin, etc).
JLS
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