Hey, two topics of discussion here, completely unrelated, because I don’t want to start two new threads.
**The first thing **is a photo from the United Press. It’s a bomb being prepped for deployment in Afghanistan and written on the side, in large letters, is HIJACK THIS FAGS
Isn’t that lovely? I cracked up when I saw that.
Go America! Operation Enduring Freedom simply can’t fail!
The second thing is the last four Dilberts. Sunday’s sucked so attrociously that it actually depressed me, but the cartoons from Monday to now are actually funnier than Adams has been in a long time. Just need to be shared.
Haven’t read the Pit threads, but there’s gotta be a better, more fitting insult that could be inserted after “Hijack This…”. So it doesn’t strike me as all that great. “Fag” was a really witty insult in junior high, but not since. I’d like to think of our military as generally tolerant, and generally adult.
nice. but, uh… you’re supposed to do that in ATMB. well, that or go post in MPSIMS with some negligible comment on something inane.
oh! uh, is that “…for and herself knowledge is power”
or “and for herself knowledge is power”? because the second one is incorrect syntax; ‘et’ splits the phrase, dontchaknow…
oh, and is that a sine wave or a beach? i can’t tell.
I think it’s a fish, swimming in the ocean. It’s kinda pretty. No clue on the Latin. I took two years in High School, and forgot every damn word of it the minute I got my report card.
Can’t be. ipsa has two meanings. It would mean knowledge itself if it came after scientia. By coming before it, it acts as an intensifier meaning very knowledge, as in that very knowledge.
plus potestas is nominative, making it another subject. The accusative would be potestatem
So Arwen is saying “And for the very knowledge power is.”
I’m thinking (s)he was trying to say “For even scientific knowledge itself is power.” Which would require putting the ipsa after scientia and spelling potestas as potestatem.
