From: garvey@simpsonsarchive.com   
      
   On Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 11:46:19 AM UTC-5, Tavis Ormandy wrote:   
   > 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.    
      
   I was thinking of that exact scene, as it happens, because of how hard it is   
   to express in natural-sounding English the meaning of the wrong grammatical   
   forms without just sounding normal. (Compare the stilted "people called   
   Romanes, they go, the house"    
   to the simplest translation.)   
      
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