Saw that one too, Bob. Maybe that's why my communications skills are slow
to develop here in Mexico. I've been busy learning Spanish, when apparently
I needed to be learning Latin. :-/
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> It always has been wacko. But now, we have instant communication to
> highlight the insanity, such as in Vermont, where a number of internet
> trolls jumped on a _Republican_ state senator for sponsoring a bill to
> include a high-school student’s proposed addition to the state motto.
> According to the Portland Press_Herald, a ninth-grader proposed adding to
> “Freedom & Unity,” the state’s current motto, the Latin phrase “Stella
> Quarta Decima Fulgeat”: “The Fourteenth Star Shines Bright.” The trolls,
> providing irrefutable proof that our gene pool is way over its limit of
> fleet-fingered morons, seemed to believe that Latin and Latino are
> synonyms, because, as we all know (cough-cough) Latin is the language of
> Latin America.
>
> In fairness, others jumped in to provide the idiots with lessons in
> language, history and geography.
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> Certified Neanderthal
>
> On Feb 7, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Our world has gone a little (maybe a lot) wacko.
>
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