Thanks, Dan :)
Wolfspirit, on host 216.13.40.196
Thursday, August 19, 1999, at 10:15:25
Re: I Thunk I Yam posted by Dan on Thursday, August 19, 1999, at 05:22:46:
> > > > > Well, they've already come up with the more obvious ones. There's also "I Think I Think", "I Thunked", "Imponderables", and my all-time favorite mouthful of a more literary sort: "Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum". > > > > > > > > > > > > > And what, praytell, does that mean? > > > > > > "I think I think, therefore I think I am." > > > > Yes, exactly. Pray tell, does anyone know how to *pronounce* the Latin phrase correctly? > > > > Wolfspirit > > Sure. Just remember that all the Os are long. And all the Gs are glottal stops (as in the word "go"). The Is are pronounced as long Es. > The "er" in "ergo" is pronounced as in the first syllable of "error". > > COE-gee-toe COE-gee-toe, EHR-goe COE-gee-toe SOOM
Thank you! I was thinking those "gees" were "jees" so it's a pleasure to know how to say it properly. Gracias.
Wolfspirit
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