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Re: lugnet.off-topic.FUN
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Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:29:55 GMT
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Mike Stanley writes:
> 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
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> culpa, culpae f. guilt, error, fault, defect.
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> in culpa esse - to be to blame
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...
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| (...) culpa, culpae f. guilt, error, fault, defect. in culpa esse - to be to blame (...) Wow, you expanding on my succinct statement. :) Yeah, we're both right, essentially. (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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