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Letter "L" » Latin
«Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.»
Author: Robert McAfee Brown
| Keywords:
Latin
«People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people - their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos.»
Author: Salma Hayek
(Actress)
| Keywords:
accent, accents, an American, famous people, identical, Jennifer, Jennifer Lopez, Latin, Latin American, pathetic, Spanish, Spanish American
«I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people»
Author: Dan Quayle
(Vice President)
| About:
Study
| Keywords:
converse, Latin, Latin America, on tour, recently, tour, touring, tours
«Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
abracadabra, ape, bloody, Chinese, Greek, Latin
«ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
beak, beaks, candidate, energetically, expounds, Latin, Latin America, prow, rabble, rostrum
«TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Affirmed, apparently, derivation, derivations, ennui, fanciful, hymn, jape, Latin, natural state, saddened, saddening, saddens, tedium
«The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].»
«There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
| Keywords:
guard, guards, Latin, Latin Proverb, proverb, significant
«Status quo, you know, that is Latin for ''the mess we're in.''»
«Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
farthings, Latin, remuneration
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