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B. T. Raven
May 8, 2013, 1:39:41 PM5/8/13
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Everyone has a better idea:
Now someone likes Faesbux* -ucis as good Latin for Zuckerberg's pet
monster. Since it's less damaging to neo-Latin to pollute it with
ancient Greek, I prefer prosopobiblia, ...biblion, ... biblica or even
liber facierum, vultuum, orum, liber vultuosorum*, etc., etc....
anything else, and finally Facebook, but not under the guise of any
cutesy alternate spellings of the English word to make it seem more Latin.
* possibly a more ancient form from the Oscan or Samnite. c goes to x to
make it sexier.
* apud Cangium:
les Bénédictins de St. Maur, 1733–1736.
Vultuosus, "Pulcher, cum gravitate decora", in Gloss. Gasp. Barthii apud
Ludewig. tom. 3. Reliq. MSS. pag. 117. ex Hist. Palæst. Roberti Monachi.
Vultuosus, tristis. Gloss. Isidori. Gloss. Lat. Gall. Sangerm. :
"Vultuosus, biaus de visage, ou tristes."
Now someone likes Faesbux* -ucis as good Latin for Zuckerberg's pet
monster. Since it's less damaging to neo-Latin to pollute it with
ancient Greek, I prefer prosopobiblia, ...biblion, ... biblica or even
liber facierum, vultuum, orum, liber vultuosorum*, etc., etc....
anything else, and finally Facebook, but not under the guise of any
cutesy alternate spellings of the English word to make it seem more Latin.
* possibly a more ancient form from the Oscan or Samnite. c goes to x to
make it sexier.
* apud Cangium:
les Bénédictins de St. Maur, 1733–1736.
Vultuosus, "Pulcher, cum gravitate decora", in Gloss. Gasp. Barthii apud
Ludewig. tom. 3. Reliq. MSS. pag. 117. ex Hist. Palæst. Roberti Monachi.
Vultuosus, tristis. Gloss. Isidori. Gloss. Lat. Gall. Sangerm. :
"Vultuosus, biaus de visage, ou tristes."
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