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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums"Using Latin, per se, is not something I normally do."
I just heard that on MSNBC in connection with "quid pro quo" vs. "extortion." I'm not sure who said it but he didn't appear to be joking.
"Per se" is Latin.
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"Using Latin, per se, is not something I normally do." (Original Post)
Towlie
Nov 2019
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unblock
(52,183 posts)1. yeah, and i neeeeeever use saaaaarcasm
Harker
(14,010 posts)2. Cogito ergo cogito sum. n/t
Dave in VA
(2,037 posts)3. je vois ce que tu as fait la!
Harker
(14,010 posts)9. Suits my ambivalent nature.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,378 posts)4. ixNay on the Atinlay.
Learning Pig Latin From The Three Stooges! ("Tassels In The Air", 1938)
6,359 viewsJan 14, 2019
Porfle Popnecker
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Moe and Larry are conversing fluently in pig latin one day...
...but Curly just can't wrap his numb skull around it.
Moe tries to teach him. "Larry...Arry-lay. Moe...O-may."
But it's a lost cause, because Curly is too Umb-day!
virgogal
(10,178 posts)5. Hysterical!
OnDoutside
(19,952 posts)6. It was Danny Heck and went completely over Hallie Jackson's head !
Golden Raisin
(4,608 posts)7. As my wiseguy uncle used to say:
"Tempus fugit simile Hades!"
Harker
(14,010 posts)8. My favorite...
time flies like an arrow... fruit flies like a banana.