ahel comments on REQ: Latin translation for HPMOR - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 August 2011 10:20AM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 22 August 2011 03:12:18PM *  5 points [-]

quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur?

Nitpick: "quidquid" meaning whatever is one word not two words. While ancient Latin didn't have spacing between words, we can see that in this sort of context it was intended as a single word because Latin allows a lot of word order rearrangement and "quidquid" didn't get split up (as I understand that). "Quid" means "what" but "quidquid" means "whatever" or "anything".

And there's a disclaimer necessary here that I haven't taken Latin in a decade so I could be wrong but I don't think I am.

Comment author: ahel 10 March 2012 01:53:45PM 0 points [-]

He's right, as far as I studied.