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Re: lugnet.off-topic.FUN
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Fri, 18 Dec 1998 01:10:51 GMT
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cjc@newsguy.NOMORESPAMcom
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Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> wrote:
> > As my little brother would say, "my bad."
> > My fault is how I would translate it.
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> I defer, of course, but I have always thought about it around "culpa"
> which is the root of culpability, so I would translate it as
culpa, culpae f. guilt, error, fault, defect.
in culpa esse - to be to blame
> "I am the one responsible for this problem"
> which is just a longer way of saying "my bad" anyway.
Wow, you expanding on my succinct statement. :)
Yeah, we're both right, essentially.
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| (...) It wasn't so much as what the term meant, as rather a question of Latin being your "official" language with which you would communicate (with) the masses. :) I shoulda been more clear... From Tom McDonald Anti-spam block in place. (URL) what (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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