Re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Xy

[Philip Friedman pfilf@xxxxxxxx]

Vox audita perit, littera scripta manet

The heard voice perishes, the written letter remains



-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Norman 
>Sent: Mar 27, 2007 10:28 PM
>To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx, xywrite@xxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Xy
>
>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
>