4.28.2006

Now, of course, I don't know what it looked like in Latin

I just read today's Earth Goat tagline: "Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing." Has got? Did Cicero really write that? I think he should give his translator a beyond-the-grave smackdown.
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  1. Grendel8:53 AM, April 28, 2006

    I don't know for sure how it got translated like that, but

    "Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing" cicero

    gets 418 hits on Google

    whereas

    "Anyone who has a book collection and a garden wants for nothing" cicero

    gets three! Somebody must have translated it like that many years ago and it stuck, I guess.

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  2. SER9:29 AM, April 28, 2006

    The George Bush verb construction is apparently de rigueur.

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  3. kclou7:27 AM, May 01, 2006

    if anyone can dig up the original latin, i'll take a look at that verb.

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