Aussie model Julia Nobis topless

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  1. Cicero, believed that the normal word order of cum nōbīs ‘with us’ would sound too much like cunnō bīs ‘twice in the cunt’, so the words were reversed…

    1. I have read that, but I think it means that Cicero was the inventor of false etymology.

      What about tecum, mecum, vobiscum, etc … Cicero argues that they get their word order reversed analogously in order to maintain consistency. Linguistic explanations are rarely, if ever, so neat. We changed one phrase because it sounds naughty, so we must change every parallel phrase using that same preposition? Unlikely.

      I’m guessing that “cum” is just a word that behaves differently from other Latin prepositions. For example, we say summa cum laude, not cum summa laude. Quo cum is a valid expression as well.

      1. Latin used to be part of a normal general college education, but I thought that ended around 1946, or at least by 1966. Did you learn (and Bill Deecee, for that matter) learn it just for fun? Or do they still insist on it today in the Ivy League schools? (Oh, I should ask Steverino that. He has a bunch of doctorates from the Ivies.)

        1. I don’t have a scholarly knowledge. I had to take two years in prep school. Many of my classmates opted to continue to Latin 3 and 4, but I opted out. I went to Catholic schools and churches and learned many Latin rituals, including but not limited to the Latin mass, by rote. Before 1962, the Latin mass was something that we had committed to memory, whether we tried or not, along with many hymns and seasonal rituals. That stuff from childhood is easy for me to remember, like the theme songs from old TV shows.

          Talk about useless knowledge! I can actually sing the Tantum Ergo from memory.

          Although I know a lot of Latin, it’s totally superficial stuff. Those who took more than two years are much more knowledgeable about the more complex constructions.

          1. The whole Tantum Ergo?! You got me beat. I can still do a 4 second Suscipiat though. Father Cummings liked his masses fast. And none of this Woe-biscum stuff they taught in public schools.

          2. Well, I also had to take two years of Latin in high school. But I gotta say, it really really helped with medical terminology.

        2. Can’t remember whether I first started taking Latin by choice (probable) or was simply put in it. But it came easy and I enjoyed it the two years I took it. And was 5th in the Latin II state test in Ohio. Have a pretty decent aptitude for languages anyway – fluent (but very rusty) in French and German and have aced graduate level courses in both Greek and Latin in the going on 20 years since I retired.
          Languages are fun. I am particularly interested in how they evolve from a parent language like Latin into something like langue d’oil French. The mysteries of le circonflex and all that.

    1. Actually was a play on Dominus vobiscum – altar boy joke from the Latin era. A lonnnnnng time ago.

  2. OK, I don’t know Latin, and Google failed to be useful with 15 seconds, so I am just going to go ahead and assume you are saying she has a noble nose. Not what I would have remarked on, but whatever floats your boat.

    1. If I recall, nobis is “we” in the dative and ablative cases, and “cum” is the preposition “with.” Many prepositions, including “cum,” take the ablative case, so “with us.” (The word “cum” often combines with the pronoun. The most famous illustration, as somebody noted earlier is “dominus vobiscum” (God be with you).

      We didn’t know as children that nobiscum was also a latin word, since we only knew “dominus vobiscum” from rote memorization, so it seems prescient that we always joked “dominus nabisco” – a kid’s joke to say “lord, give us cookies,” which was usually followed by the positively Wildean retort “and some spirits, too, too, oh!” for the “et cum spiritu tuo.”

      Memories of a (sort of) Catholic childhood.

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