Re: MR: Latin pigs

[John Strauss <jstrauss@gmu.edu>]

Poster: John Strauss <jstrauss@gmu.edu>

On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Corun MacAnndra wrote:

> > >  | Porcellus fori; Porcellus domi; Porcellus carnivorus;
> > >  |    Porcellus non voratus; Porcellus plorans domum.
> > >  |  				Mater Goose
> > 
>  Perhaps it is simply that Lady Alanna was looking for the Latin
> for "whee whee whee", and I will admit that such was not given in the
> original transcription, nor do I know how one would say "whee whee whee"
> in Latin.
> 

"Whee whee whee" is onomatopoetic, and so is, more or less, spelled the 
same in any language.

|      John Strauss             |      aka Henry Best          |
|      jstrauss@gmu.edu         |      henry@poboxes.com       |
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