From: taviso@gmail.com   
      
   On 2022-11-28, Matt Garvey wrote:   
   > That's not Latin!   
   > There are various little mistakes and oddities in this episode, but I   
   > will focus just on the motto seen at Lisa's graduation: "veritas et   
   > mendicam". The last (new, joke) word is not grammatical. There is a   
   > group of related words for poor, beggar, begging, etc., and I guess   
   > the intent was something like "truth and poverty (from unaffordable   
   > tuition)", but this is wrong in several ways. It's an adjective, for   
   > one thing, though it can take the place of a noun, I suppose. It's   
   > feminine, perhaps just because veritas is too; but it's in the   
   > accusative case, used for direct objects of verbs, motion toward, etc.   
   > - and certainly would not be paired with the (typically) nominative   
   > veritas. As it's written, this is gibberish, and using that root as   
   > desired is a little difficult, but something like mendicans (or plural   
   > mendicantes), using a participle as a substantive, for "truth and the   
   > one(s) (left) begging" might be reasonable. Unless I'm missing   
   > something, this is just careless on a level that makes 3F04's   
   > incorrect conjugation of mori look downright scholarly.   
   >   
      
   I really hope sombody had to "eunt domus" for that blunder! :)   
      
   (But seriously, very interesting analysis, thanks Matt!)   
      
   Tavis.   
      
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