[UA] A potentiallly UAable profession

[David M Jacobs]

At 12:20 AM 16/03/02 -0600, Tim Toner wrote:
>As a tangentially related idea, all Vatican edicts must be published in
>(Ecclesiastical) Latin, which makes things troublesome if the pope uses
>words like 'stem cell research' or 'DVD player' in a bull.  So there's a guy
>who has to make up words, usually by building on previous terms, and make
>sure they're grammatically tight.

IIRC, it's part of a move by John Paul II to modernise Ecclesiastical 
Latin, the idea being that the Vatican will produce a "modern" Latin 
dictionary.  However, the translations are a tad unwieldy; "computer:, 
f'rinstance, is translated as "instrumentum computatorum".

I'm dying to know how they'll deal with "spam".  #%o)



David M Jacobs
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"'Kevin,' David interrupted, 'what the Germans should have done
was show the Russians a dead cat and ask them to explain it.'

"'That would have stopped the Soviet offensive right there,' I said.
"Zhukov would still be trying to account for the cat's death.'"

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