Friday, July 25, 2008, 13:29 -
Jokes and anecdotesPosted by Administrator
OBAMA AMABO
For the uninitiated, "amabo" means "I shall love" in Latin. And Obama means... Actually, I don't know what that means. And it's not my point here at all :)
A few weeks ago my professor showed to me this palindrome. At first I thought that an attempt should have been made to put Obama in the Accusative (pretty simple - Obamam), but this would have destroyed the palindrome. On the other hand, this name could very easily be taken to be indeclinable, because it's foreign and all that... Since then, the candidate has enraged the general public and, I must assume, enthralled Latinists with the whole
vero possumus business. I won't make any comments on that, my purpose here is merely to report the technopaegnia.