Saturday, March 21, 2020

Cartoon about how filler words when finishing a presentation sound more impressive in Latin


A recent Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal cartoon had the following captions:

“HOW YOU PLAN TO END TALKS: ‘And thus the conclusion is self-evident.’
HOW YOU ALWAYS END TALKS: ‘Uh. So. Yeah.’
SOLUTION - CONVERT IT TO LATIN: ‘Vah. Sic. Etiam.’ “

Similarly, an article by Betsy Russell in the Idaho Press on March 20, 2020 about the Idaho legislature concluding their session was titled House adjourns sine die, at 9:18 a.m. The impressive-sounding Latin phrase ‘sine die’ just means indefinitely, or as the Merriam-Webster dictionary says less tersely:
“without any future date being designated (as for resumption).”


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