Re: [xsl] Replacing character entities

["Joris Gillis" <roac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tempore 20:52:00, die 02/14/2005 AD, hinc in  
xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx scripsit <JBryant@xxxxxxxxx>:

> My thought as well, as I would certainly not translate "Scio me nihil
> scire" as "I know that I know nothing".
From an aesthetic point of view, that translation stinks of course; that's  
why I leave it in Latin on my signature:)

> I have not used my Latin in 20
> years, but I do recall that "scire" is the infinitive and should be
> translated as "to know" (which makes me think a verb is missing and makes
> me think it's a fragment of a longer quotation or a badly formed  
> rewrite).
AFAIK, it is a perfect Latin phrase:

"Scio"
  \ conjugated verb (+ subject)
   \   object: completive phrase
    -- "me"
       subject of infinitive sentence
           "nihil"
           predicate
                  "scire"
                  infinitive

This should be correct (I'm in the 6th Latin-math Class); English  
translation of the sentence functions could be wrong though, I know them  
only in Dutch.
		

regards,
--
Joris Gillis (http://www.ticalc.org/cgi-bin/acct-view.cgi?userid=38041)
"Scio me nihil scire"  - Socrates