From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   On 20/04/2024 7:47 p.m., Aidan Kehoe wrote:   
   >   
   >   Ar an fichiú lá de mí Aibreán, scríobh Ross Clark:   
   >   
   >   > [...] The other Byron quote (too long to copy) is about meeting the   
   >   > celebrated "hyperpolyglot", Cardinal Mezzofanti.   
   >   >   
   >   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Caspar_Mezzofanti   
   >   
   > Now that’s a Wikipedia article full of suspicion!   
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   I thought it was quite an interesting account of the continuing   
   skepticism about exactly how many languages he knew, and about the   
   essential difficulty of putting numbers to such things.   
      
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