AW: Nullis in verba

From: Stefan Jahnke <Stefan.Jahnke_at_bov.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:06:39 +0100
Message-ID: <87F172BCF111D0489340AB3CB16A011E0DD1F7@EBMS20.bov.int>

Hi Niall

nil illegitimi carborundum =3D do not let yourself be abraded ?!?!?

Stefan

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Von: Niall Litchfield [mailto:n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk] Gesendet: Monday, February 23, 2004 10:08 AM An: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Betreff: RE: Nullis in verba

I'm pretty sure that Cary is referring to The Royal Society = http://www.roya=3D
lsoc.ac.uk/ which was formed in 1660 as The Royal Society of London for = Imp=3D
roving Natural Knowledge, which is the sort of title you get if you put = a b=3D
unch of seventeenth century academics into a room together, if you put = a bu=3D
nch of 21st century computer scientists in a room together you get The = OakT=3D
able, it is unclear whether 4 centuries have actually brought that much = pro=3D
gress. It is now just the Royal Society (no mathematics or England or = anyth=3D
ing else in its name) and is the pre-eminent scientifc community in the = UK.=3D
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Prince Charles almost certainly is well aware of latin given his age = and ed=3D
ucational background, not to mention his possession of a Latin motto = all of=3D
his own. The DBA's latin motto is of course 'nil illegitimi = carborundum'.=3D
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Ok enough OT from me.=3D20

Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission
+44 117 975 7805=3D20

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> On 02/20/2004 05:01:08 PM, Cary Millsap wrote:
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> > "Nullius in verba" means, "Don't take anybody's word for it." It =
has
> > been the motto of the Royal Society of England for a few centuries.

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> Actually, it is the motto of Royal Mathematical Society if England.
> I very much doubt that the likes of bonnie prince Charley and Fergie,
> the duchess of pork, know Latin.
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