Ludicrous Latin: Non, mihi ignosce, credo me insequentem esse
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
No, excuse me, I believe I’m next.
Ludicrous Latin: Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
Monday, April 15, 2019
If Caesar were alive, you’d be chained to an oar!
Ludicrous Latin: Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.
Friday, April 12, 2019
I don’t care. If it doesn’t rhyme, it isn’t a poem.
Today’s Latin Phrase: Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!
Sunday, March 31, 2019
May barbarians invade your personal space!
Viral Marco: A really cute kid speaks French!
Friday, March 29, 2019
History Schmistory: January 28. “Dear Horace, I just had a happy accident.”
Monday, January 28, 2019
1754: The first use of the word “serendipity” in the English language is noted in a letter from Horace Walpole to Horace Mann. A letter between Horaces! Walpole said he formed it from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, whose heroes “were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of”. Mann convinced Walpole to truncate the fledgling term from the original; “Serendipity-doo-dah.”
Serendipity by Nila Sivatheesan, April 7, 2014 via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution.
MarcoWord (French): Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas)
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Today’s MarcoWord (French): Joyeux Noël. Merry Christmas. “Joyeux Noël, my French friend. Whoa, change one letter and ‘French friend’ looks like ‘French Fried!’ Cool!”
Grocerymania, Joyeux Noel Metro 1960, via flick, creative commons contribution
