From rosivach@FAIR1.FAIRFIELD.EDU Sun Apr 1 21:03:06 2001 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f32435277660 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 21:03:05 -0700 Received: from fair1.fairfield.edu (fair1.fairfield.edu [12.23.55.219]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f32433b21899 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 21:03:03 -0700 Received: from webmail.fairfield.edu ([192.160.243.11]) by FAIR1.FAIRFIELD.EDU (PMDF V5.2-32 #43883) with ESMTP id <01K1WK3CVYA000INQH@FAIR1.FAIRFIELD.EDU> for classics@u.washington.edu; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 00:00:23 EDT Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 23:36:00 -0400 From: rosivach Subject: RE: Redneck Latin Sender: rosivach To: classics@u.washington.edu Message-id: <3A3F1773@webmail.fairfield.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: WebMail (Hydra) SMTP v3.51.06 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-WebMail-UserID: rosivach X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002778 Pardon me for being PC about this, but "Redneck" is offensive. Vince Rosivach > ===== Original Message From classics@u.washington.edu ===== >I saw a red Chevy S10 today, Mississippi tag, with a big Latin sign on it: >Deus Mei Erus. I suppose we should be glad that Latin is permeating every >nook and cranny of society, but, really, wouldn't you make sure it's correct >before you paint it on your new red truck? Or maybe the owner couldn't find >the genitive form for "truck". :-) > >Kyriakos Aestates .