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Kushiel's Dart

Lydia Nickerson lydy at demesne.com
Wed Feb 16 15:22:33 PST 2005

At 03:16 PM 2/16/2005 -0800, Philip Hart wrote:


>On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Lydia Nickerson wrote:
>
> > At 12:56 PM 2/16/2005 -0800, Philip Hart wrote:
> >
> >
> > >On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Lydia Nickerson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Dulciculi Aliquorum
> > >
> > >Guess the standard spam filters aren't sensitive to Latin
> > >(assuming I'm reading that right - "sweet unmentionables of some people").
> >
> > Not quite.  It's an exclamation of fond exasperation:  Some people's 
> sweeties!
>
>There's a Latin word "culus" which means something like "bottom" -
>but now that I think of it there's also the diminutive "-culus".
>Distinguishing between the two is way beyond my reading comprehension,
>though.  Any non-illiterate Latin readers, please chime in.

I won't swear to its accuracy, but I did get it from the graduate lounge of 
the Latin students here at the U of M.  After they'd finished laughing and 
falling over, you understand.


Lydia Nickerson	lydy at demesne.com
Dulciculi Aliquorum