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tama

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3. How very civilized
Tue Jan 10, 2012, 05:11 PM
Jan 2012

in civilized English sexual acts are written in Latin (what does flagrante delicto mean, btw?) and in civilized Latin they are written in Greek (-> graeca sunt, non leguntur). Greeks had no language they considered more highly civilized, to them all other languages sounded like bar bar, hence the onomatopoetic word barbarians.

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COOL! HopeHoops Jan 2012 #1
How very interesting. Behind the Aegis Jan 2012 #2
How very civilized tama Jan 2012 #3
I know how to use it, but didn't know the exact meaning... Behind the Aegis Jan 2012 #4
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