[Coco] life changing event

[Wayne Campbell]

My first lesson in Latin and I still don't understand! ;)

This android won't let me edit the quoted text. My apologies.


Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:

>
>> On Friday, May 10, 2013 10:20:03 AM Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> > On 10/05/2013 2:53 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> >> I was a good year ahead of him but I am so bored I am thinking of
>>> >> going back.  Don't need the money so I guess I could use most of
>>> >> it to buy toys for my COCO's.  :-)
>>> >
>>> > No disrespect intended, but I really can't fathom this type of
>>> > thinking!?!
>>>
>>> Are you married?  :-)  Sometimes how we spend our time is not
>>> totally up to one's self.
>>>
>>> > I've got so much I want to do, I'd retire tomorrow in a heart-beat if
>>> it
>>> > was
>>> > financially viable... unfortunately I've got another 15-odd years if I
>>> > follow the norm.
>>>
>>> My retirement plans involved lots of things to do with my wife.
>>> They also involve living someplace warmer than where I live now.
>>> Unfortunately, she is younger than I am and neither eligible or
>>> interested in retiring.  Kind of makes moving south problematic.
>>> I know it is heresy, but one can only play with computers for so
>>> many hours a day.  :-)
>>>
>>> bill
>>
>>
>> 8-))) Et tu Bruta???
>
>Not me pal....  The "a" ending in latin is feminine.  It should have
>been an "e" and because we all know his name was actually "Brutus",
>here's why...
>
>     "The name "Brutus", a second declension masculine noun, appears
>      in the phrase in the vocative case, and so the -us ending of
>      the nominative case is replaced by -e".
>
>Latin was always so much fun!!
>
>That's our latin lesson for the day and you now have more information
>than you ever wanted.
>
>bill
>
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