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09-08-2008, 07:04 AM
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09-08-2008, 10:15 AM
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It spells "amabo," the Latin future active indicative, first person singular verb meaning "I will love."
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09-08-2008, 11:43 AM
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Neat - I like it. Thanks for posting this Duncan. My youngest daughter is taking her first Latin course this year and she also loves Obama. I will tell her about this when she comes in from school this afternoon.
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09-08-2008, 11:49 AM
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Awesome. It's going on my verb conjugation quiz two periods from now.
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09-08-2008, 12:08 PM
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Nomen est omen.
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09-08-2008, 02:58 PM
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Originally posted by James Wilk:
It spells "amabo," the Latin future active indicative, first person singular verb meaning "I will love."
Jim
Jim, I'm sold old that I was taught to use shall with first person singular and plural.
These days a politician is more likely to say, "I'm gonna love, baby, love."
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09-08-2008, 04:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Marion Shore:
Nomen est omen.
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Marion,
Does this mean "Name is an Omen?"
If so, I agree. I think 'Barack' means something like "I will bless". I think, as Oprah said, "he's the one". 
Maybe I should take Latin.
Anne
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09-08-2008, 10:14 PM
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Yeah, and there's the rumor that occasionally comes up on the TSE-List that he used his middle initial because "T. Eliot" is "toilet" backwards.
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09-10-2008, 08:04 AM
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"The things which I have here promised, I will perform."
"If I can help in any way, I will be very happy to do so."
--Quotes from Elizabeth II
But what does she know about "The Queen's English"?
Shall has been going the way of thence and thither, whence and whither, hence and hither for a very, very long time.
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09-11-2008, 05:27 AM
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On the first-person singular "shall" vs. "will"--the pedant's rule is that "I shall X" expresses confident expectation ("I shall be nineteen years old next Tuesday") and "I will X" expresses the speaker's intention ("I will marry you, Throckmorton"). So Elizabeth's usage is correct.
For second and third persons, the rule is reversed. ("You shall not pass!" vs. "When you get to the end of the street you will see a yellow house.")
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