From: djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)
Date: 2003-03-09T00:59:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Solving the 'strange language' documentation problem

"Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote in message news:<334f01c2e53c$f8d803e0$0300a8c0@austin.rr.com>...
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Daniel Berger" <djberge@qwest.com>
> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 4:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Solving the 'strange language' documentation problem
> 
> 
> > > (*) Latin: It is indeed no problem to write technical documentation
> > > in Latin. The Holy See does use Latin as its official language and
> > > did invest *much* energy into a modern Latin dictionary that allows
> > > them to write documents about today's issues in Latin.
> > >
> > > Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp (at) gmx.de>           http://jupp.tux.nu/
> > 
> > I knew I could put my M.A. in Classics to use in the computer field
> > someday!
> > 
> > BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
> > 
> > Of course, I'll have to look up some of the modern words. :)
> 
> Indeed... once I bought a Latin/English dictionary mostly
> as a matter of curiosity. I was amused and gratified to
> browse it and learn that the Latin word for "spaceship"
> was "astronavis."
> 
> Cheers,
> Hal

Whew - I'm glad you cleared that up.  I almost gave up when I couldn't
translate "spaceship operator".  Now I know that it's "astronavis
effector". :-P

I did manage to find this link:

http://www.obta.uw.edu.pl/~draco/docs/voccomp.html

I'm sure there must be more complete ones out there.  I suppose I
could order the Oxford Latin Dictionary.  A bargain at at mere $295.

Hmm...does this mean I should use all caps and no punctuation?  And
wtf should I do about representing zero?

:-P

Regards,

Dan