Ducentesimum Vicesimum Secundum Latinum Verbum Diei: October 3, 2010

[Christina Wallin]

Theme for this month: Latin hidden in our everyday lives

English, though it is not a Romance language, contains a goodly amount
of Latin in it. This month's theme honors those words, with a few
words which, but for endings, are English words sneaking in. These
words, like last month's words, come from “Latin Alive: The Survival
of Latin in English and the Romance Languages.”

careo, carere, carui, caritum

specifically: caret

Definition: (of persons or things) to be devoid of, not to have,
lack; to be or go without; to be separated from (friends, etc.); to
fail to achieve or win, be denied; to be exempt from (danger, trouble,
etc.); to abstain from; to be deprived of, lose

Sententia: Careo sententia.

I am lacking a sentence.

Perhaps you are familiar with the proofreading mark, a caret: ^. In
fact, “caret” comes from this week's word, and marks where a text
needs something added to it, or in other words, when the text “is
lacking” something. Another [nerdy] use of a caret is to mark the
beginning of a string in a regular expression (http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Regular_expression is an explanation of regular expressions, if
you do not know what they are and care to learn).

I apologize for the unannounced break in the LVD last week—I just
didn't have enough time to do it.