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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