From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 29 12:36:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 001A737BCE6 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 12:36:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (r36.bfm.org [216.127.220.132]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Mon, 29 May 2000 14:37:16 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000529143533.008f8aa0@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 14:35:33 -0500 To: Poul-Henning Kamp From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: Descartes Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <27249.959622109@critter.freebsd.dk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 19:41 29-05-2000 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >"Cogito ergo cogito ergo sum" as one of the fortunes claims with >little regard to latin grammer. What's wrong with its Latin grammar? It does not make much sense ("I think, therefore I think, therefore I am"), but it is grammatically correct. More meaningful phrases might include "Cogito me cogitare ergo sum" ("I think that I think, therefore I am"), or perhaps "Cogito ergo cogito me esse" ("I think, therefore I think that I am"). That said, I disagree with old Rene D., anyway. He should have just claimed "Cogito me esse" - "I think that I am." One could never argue with that. :) All the others are arguable. Cheers, Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message