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Paul

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Dec 10, 2003, 07:51 PM
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let me preface this by saying I am not trying to degrade your story in any way, but only to raise a grammatical question about the title.

ok, ignore the following if the title of your story is intended to be italian (a language I am wholly unfamiliar with), or some language other than latin. But if it's latin, bear with me because it's time to enter:

LATIN PEDANT MODE! (all true latin students posess the ability to transform into a pedant at will. kind of magical, if you ask me)

--initiating latin pedant mode--
I hate to nitpick, but if you were going for latin in your title (fabella vita /ae--you seem to change it in the topic and the title--) you're close but not quite there. the latin for tale/fable/etc is Fabula -ae, and what you've got is a bit of a distortion of the diminuitive form (i.e., "little tale"), the proper identity of which I'm not sure of (fabula is not one of those words you often see in the diminuitive like that). Whatever the diminuitive is, though, I'm thinking there isn't an e in there.

But I don't actually think you wanted the dimunitive, seeing as you translate your title as the story of life, or something like that. What that would actually be is "Fabula Vitae." You had the Vitae correct all the way through; well done on that front. You'd be amazed (well, maybe I'm the only one who is) at the awful latin distortions that go on in the harsh, harsh world of non-latin students out there.
--exiting latin pedant mode--

well that was fun. thus ends my single post for the month--and, I think, my second post ever in the war tavern. see you in january.
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