Subject: Re: [xsl] Replacing character entities From: António Mota <amsmota@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:28:57 +0000 |
I used to have as my signature Quidquid Latinum Dictit, Altun Sonatur wich seems to be true... On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:03:28 -0500, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 03:02 PM 2/14/2005, you wrote: > >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... > > "I know myself to know nothing" would be more literal and less apt. > > As far as Socrates' existence is concerned, it's attested in Xenophon and > Aristophanes as well as in Plato. There's no reason I know of to believe > they all made him up. (Whether the person named Socrates was much like > Plato's "Socrates" character is a different matter.) > > As far as XSLT is concerned -- the old satyr didn't know that either, but > that seems to have bothered the Delphic Oracle as little as his lack of > Latinity, when she proclaimed him the wisest. > > Cheers, > Wendell > > > ====================================================================== > Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com > 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 > Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 > Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML > ======================================================================
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