Re: ma gavte. . .

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My gawd, Scottie, as I've said before, you were BORN to be in radio:



>    
>    How is it pronounced?
>
>    I have this awful problem with Latin (upper case) Us.
>    Whenever I look at the credits for the Robert Graves
>    epic I find myself tormented with 'I, CLAVDIVS' & 
>    CLAVDIVS THE GOD' ....
>


I don't know about you, but I had a fabulous Latin teacher! (Heck, the guy
had us reading Catullus in Grade 11--which was pretty racey stuff at the
time.... at ANY time!)  He had me believing that there was no VEE in
Latin....  The V was either a U (when it was a vowel) or a W (when it was a
consonant).... Ergo, Weni, Widi, Wici..... 



>    Is it 'ma gavtay la nada' or - conceivably - 
>    'ma gowtay la nada....' ?
>
>    Scottie B.
>    
>    
>


I totally empathize with Scottie's dilemma--especially since I plan to start
peppering my conversation with this 'conversation stopper' almost immediately.

(...and as an 'alienist', Scottie, I'm curious about your thoughts on
'meaning'....)

Cheers,

Paul

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