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“Cum [X] eo eo eo eo [Y] quod eum amo.”

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henh...@gmail.com

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Dec 11, 2022, 4:32:34 PM12/11/22
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could you give me a sentence
“Cum [X] eo eo eo eo [Y] quod eum amo.”

such that [X] ends with ...eo and
[Y] begins with eo...... ?



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https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/86906/beyond-buffalo-buffalo-9-other-repetitive-sentences-around-world

“Cum eo eo eo eo quod eum amo.”

Eo can be interpreted as a verb (“I go”), an adverb ("there," "for that reason"), and an ablative pronoun (“with him” or “by him”) in Latin, each with an array of different shades of meaning. Put four of them in a row in the context [cum eo eo eo eo quod eum amo], and you’ll have a sentence meaning
“I am going there with him because I love him.”



>>> [Captain EO] is a 1986 American 3D science fiction short film shown at Disney theme parks from 1986 through 1998. The movie stars Michael Jackson, was written by George Lucas, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola (who came up with the name "Captain EO" from the Greek, cf. Eos, the Greek goddess of dawn).

(17 minutes) <---------- i saw this... It was Great !!!




https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/86906/beyond-buffalo-buffalo-9-other-repetitive-sentences-around-world

>>> 3. “Malo malo malo malo.” // Latin

6. “Como como? Como como como como!” // Spanish

Ed Cryer

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Dec 12, 2022, 8:45:05 AM12/12/22
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Nice one!

I'm wondering if a native Latin-speaking old Roman would have got that.
I think it could have been conveyed by mouth using standard emphases,
pauses and intonation. Something like this;

Cum eo {slight pause} eo {slight pause} eo {long pause} eo quod ......

Even so, it would have come across as word play, a dialogue between
language experts searching for holes in Latin.
This is how I'd have said it;
Cum eo illuc ibo (propter (ob) hoc quod) (quia, quoniam) eum amo.


“Cum [X] eo eo eo eo [Y] quod eum amo.”
Cum (reo, deo, ferreo, semideo, colosseo) eo eo eo eo eodem de consilio
quod eum amo.


Ed


henh...@gmail.com

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Dec 12, 2022, 2:25:15 PM12/12/22
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thanks so much!



(Cum colosseo eo) (eo(1)) (eo(2)) (eo(3)) (eodem de consilio (4)) quod eum amo.

Would that be... this?

--- (With him (who is colossal))
(I am going (1))
(there (2))
(for that reason (3)) (for that selfsame reason/purpose (4))
because I love him.




is that
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eodem
1. Adverb, or
2. Determiner (ablative masculine/neuter singular of īdem) ?

Ed Cryer

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Dec 13, 2022, 7:46:36 AM12/13/22
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With that (prisoner, god, iron-man, demigod, colossus)
The ablative "eo" is from "is"; used here adjectivally.

"Eodem" ablative of "idem".
eodem de consilio quod eum amo = with the same intention, because I love
him.

Ed

henh...@gmail.com

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Dec 14, 2022, 11:06:34 AM12/14/22
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thank you!


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bibliophagist


((to me...) pola doesn't sound Latinate.)


bibliopole == MEANING: noun: A bookseller, especially of rare works.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin bibliopola (bookseller), from Greek bibliopoles, biblio- (book) + polein (to sell). Earliest documented use: 1775.

USAGE: “An old London bibliopole ... Heywood Hill has been selling books in Mayfair since 1936, when its catalogue included the first British edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses.”
For the Person Who Has Everything... Bespoke Libraries; The Economist (London, UK); Dec 20, 2014.

Ed Cryer

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Dec 14, 2022, 2:00:23 PM12/14/22
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There are three Greek words wrapped up here;

βιβλίον = book
φαγεῖν = to eat, devour
πωλέω = to sell

I've always liked the word "sarcophagus". It's pure Greek and means
"flesh-eater". But there are stacks of these surviving, and, as far as I
know, they had nothing more than a human corpse in them. I would have
expected some chemicals added to decompose the flesh aromatically;
perhaps Egyptian in origin, alongside all the intricacies of
mummification that they used so well.

Ed

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