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Sat Oct 12 17:08:09 PDT 2002

On Saturday, October 12, 2002, at 03:17 PM, Mark A Mandel wrote:

> I had the nagging feeling there was something I was supposed to be
> thinking about. Oh, yeah. Psychic communication. In Latin.
>
> #(Capre diem, this is all in good fun)
>
> (Nota bene, this is all in good fun.)
>
> Capre: vocative singular of "caper", (he-)goat. Translation: "Goat! O
> goat! Yo, goat!"
>
> Diem: accusative singular of "dies", day. Translation: "day", generally
> as object of the verb.
>
> "Goat! ... day." Huh?
>
> Obvious re-interpretation: A typo for "carpe diem", "seize the day".
> Clear enough, but what's it doing here?
>

Huh, things you learn. How do you say, "I came, I saw, slept"?
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