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Language lesson
Chris Punter and Caseworks raise the bar on our foreign poetry thread by being the first to quote the schoolboy favourite that not only makes sense in English, but is proper Latin, too: ‘Caesar adsum iam forte/Brutus adarat/Caesar sic in omnibus/Brutus sic inat’.
Molly Mockford, at Pagination Associates, supplies a version with ‘sic intram’ as the last two words, which maintains the public transport theme.
And while on the subject of old jokes in other languages: ‘How about the French Naval Academy’s motto, "To the water, it is the hour",’ says E.D. Wivens, at Katzphur. ‘Or, in French, "a l’eau, c’est l’heure".’
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