You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

dbaupp comments on REQ: Latin translation for HPMOR - Less Wrong Discussion

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

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (52)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: dbaupp 23 August 2011 09:22:48AM 1 point [-]

Why tenet rather than habet?

My feeling with those words is that habet mostly refers to actual objects, in a mundane sense (e.g. "I have a fork"), while tenet is more of an abstract "have" (e.g. "I have a belief").

Comment author: gjm 23 August 2011 11:57:58AM 1 point [-]

That seems plausible. (I don't know enough to know whether it's correct.) I like Jem's dative construction better than either, I think.