Strictly for smartarses
Thursday January 12, 2006; part of: Literature

The FWB has just sent me a bumper sticker, arising from her latin homework

Sic hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades

In English -- If you can read this you have been properly educated -- and you're much too close.

I think I will have to arrange for this on Cafepress.

Posted by andrewb at January 12, 2006 08:57 PM
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Smarta*r*ses with an r, surely? Very obscure word, obex -- it apparently only appears four times in the corpus. You'd have to be very liberaliter educatus/a to recognise it.

Posted by: Stephanus on January 13, 2006 09:23 AM

Thank you. We have enough kowtowing to American imperialism in our politics without our journalists submitting to their dialect.

Posted by: Stephanus on January 15, 2006 05:27 PM

Obex is also the OBject EXchange protocol, which is perhaps best thought of as binary over HTTP. Does ad hoc data exchange, most commonly between mobile devices. It may well live on your mobile phone, where it will do things like move pictures and music over Bluetooth.

R

("Frank?"

"Obex is a kind of dwarf Sumatran water buffalo..." )

Posted by: RupertG on January 16, 2006 12:23 PM

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