Re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Xy

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 06:49 PM 3/27/2007, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
 Vox audit perit litera scripta manet ("The spoken word
> > > never stays; the written world never perishes," [a liberal
> > > translation, I think].)
> > A bit liberal, yes. "Manet" is simply "remains."
> And isn't it "vox audita"? Literally, The voice, heard, perishes;
> the word, written, remains.
To take a slight liberty, and to turn it into the idiom it is, you
can add, I think, _once_ before "heard" and replace that semi-colon
with the conjunction, _but_. But then my Latin is almost all gone
now, and my dog-eared dictionary and primer don't have the lesson I
need. Titus Pullo where are you?
michael norman