# Anti-abortion nimwits and associated jerks at UM commencement **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 30, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225 "2007-04-30T22:38:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/41 "2007-05-02T13:49:38Z")
[QUOTE=Great Dave] Yeah, that letters section is something, aint it? That and the comics were the only reason I got the _Press_. I finally gave up on it a few months ago, and don’t miss it a bit. But let’s not give this board the wrong impression about Grand Rapids. I think most of the kooks live in the sub- and ex-urbs. [/QUOTE] Just follow the Paul B. Henry Fwy to Gerald R Ford Fwy to Lake Macatawa! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/42 "2007-05-02T14:03:43Z")
[QUOTE=essell] Dam. You guys have got some nutters in America. I’m just glad our crazy people are too busy licking baloons and hunting foxes _(Foxi ?)_ to organise anything that annoying. Oh, I was refering to the OP, not to the Grammer Nazis (Oh come on, that should be Natzi. Lets get latin) [/QUOTE] I read it as licking _baboons_. That was a new one. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/43 "2007-05-02T14:12:24Z")
[QUOTE=Maus Magill] So how would I write, “Romans go home!”? [/QUOTE] “Romani, ite domum!” of course. Vocative plural; third person present indicative plural; locative (orthographically identical to the accusative, in this case) singular. Now write it out a hundred times. …And if it isn’t done by sunrise, I’ll cut your balls off. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/44 "2007-05-02T14:49:25Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > third person present indicative plural [nitpick] Um, second person imperative plural, right? Third person present indicative plural would be “eunt”, and would mean “they go home”. [/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/45 "2007-05-02T15:03:20Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] (My personal anti-favorite is “monokini” for the bottom half of a bikini bathing suit. I don’t mind at all that the first syllable of the linguistically-unrelated Micronesian word “bikini” is interpreted as though it were the Latin prefix “bi”; in fact, I think that’s adorable. What drives me crazy is that the anonymous neologizer decided to replace the (pseudo-) Latin prefix “bi” in “bikini” with the **Greek** prefix “mono”! Aaagh! Obviously, the garment in question **ought** to be called a “ **uni** kini”!) [/QUOTE] Unikini is the whole-body bathsuit, y’see. Trikini is the one that sort of looks like a bikini but actually has stuff on the midriff. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/46 "2007-05-02T15:06:52Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] [nitpick] Um, second person imperative plural, right? Third person present indicative plural would be “eunt”, and would mean “they go home”. [/nitpick] [/QUOTE] Hah! Ya got me. That’ll teach me to mentally replay John Cleese instead of actually engaging my brain. :smack: But “plural imperative” would do: there aren’t normally any other persons than second when you’re issuing orders. (There’s always the iussive subjunctive if you need to give rhetorical orders to yourself and company, or some third party.) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/47 "2007-05-02T15:12:33Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] “Romani, ite domum!” of course. Vocative plural; third person present indicative plural; locative (orthographically identical to the accusative, in this case) singular. Now write it out a hundred times. …And if it isn’t done by sunrise, I’ll cut your balls off. [/QUOTE] Ah. Erudition and brutality, and the ability to use both side-by-side. On such things as these are empires built. Of course, they eventually tend to fall to those less erudite and more brutal. ---
**Author:** ![Dragoness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@Dragoness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragoness)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/48 "2007-05-02T18:18:08Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] But “plural imperative” would do: there aren’t normally any other persons than second when you’re issuing orders. (There’s always the iussive subjunctive if you need to give rhetorical orders to yourself and company, or some third party.) [/QUOTE] Not so- Greek has third-person, plural and singular, imperatives in addition to the second-person plural and singular. Of course, all varieties come in both present and aorist (aspect, not tense). Why a language needs both a third person imperative AND a hortatory subjunctive (what you Latinists would call iussive) is utterly beyond me. I guess that’s like asking why a language needs both a passive and a middle, or both a subjunctive and an optative- attempts to make Greek rational are doomed to failure. Er, sorry. As you were. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/49 "2007-05-02T18:38:18Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] “Romani, ite domum!” of course. Vocative plural; third person present indicative plural; locative (orthographically identical to the accusative, in this case) singular. Now write it out a hundred times. …And if it isn’t done by sunrise, I’ll cut your balls off. [/QUOTE] Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Romani, ite domum! Finished! ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/50 "2007-05-02T19:10:06Z")
Great. :rolleyes: Can we please get back to the OP now? You Latin dorks are free to start your own threads about whatever the hell declension you want. One use of an alternate plural and you go freakin’ nuts. Who cares if English mixes Latin and Greek roots? That’s the beauty of the language. So fuck off for ruining my perfectly fine rant. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/51 "2007-05-02T20:04:16Z")
Adopting the character “Dwight” portrayed by Robert DeNiro in the movie “This Boy’s Life”, I will teach you how to deal with individuals holding posters of aborted _feti_ when you walk by them: > [@](#): > > Okay. Now you can always kick, somebody in the balls, but I like this one better: What you do is hit 'em in the throat with the side of your forearm… Hit 'em in the throat, but do it before they’re expecting it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/52 "2007-05-02T21:05:06Z")
When they eliminated the top half of the bikini shouldn’t they have called the remaining piece a bikinus? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/53 "2007-05-02T21:13:30Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > When they eliminated the top half of the bikini shouldn’t they have called the remaining piece a bikinus? Hush, we Latin dorks are supposed to be fucking off now. We made too much noise and got the OP mad at us. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225.md?page=2)