[PLUG-TALK] Web developer to help small family farm

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> writes:

John> On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 14:43:49 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard
John> <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:

>> On Sat, 19 Sep 2020, Galen Seitz wrote:
>> 
>>> Didn't you mean to say "a pro porcus basis"?  Now watch John come
>>> and correct my Latin.

John> Latin 'pro' is a preposition, meaning similar to English 'for.'
John> Like all Latin prepositions it requires its noun complement to be
John> in a particular case, and 'pro' takes the ablative
John> case. Therefore, the correct expression would be 'pro porcō,'
John> where the final -o was long (just hold the o twice as long as you
John> normally would). Except for the long final o, Julius Caesar would
John> have pronounced it the same as a present day Spanish
John> speaker. (Spanish lost the long-short vowel contrast.)

This discussion can't pass without a mention of the definitive latin
lesson in popular culture:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lczHvB3Y9s


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