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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Harald Arnesen <skogtun@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Style command source available?
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:42:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_RQXUwqj9qFHHzbxgsfgKuSrejLXBWW0KJcJCO=Xkz=xw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b24cae8-604a-4b0f-d56e-479f32702b84@gmail.com>

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 5:22 AM Harald Arnesen <skogtun@gmail.com> wrote:


> >                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
>
> Of course, what Hippokrates really wrote was
> "Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή"
>

Naturally.  But for hysterical raisins I stick to ASCII in my .sigs, and
anyway, the Latin version allows me to say "Arse longa, vita brevis" when
appropriate.

What Hippocrates definitely didn't say was "First, do no harm", though it
is close to something in the Epidemics which I have refrained from looking
up.




John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
No,  John.  I want formats that are actually useful, rather than over-
featured megaliths that address all questions by piling on ridiculous
internal links in forms which are hideously over-complex.
        --Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-21 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-20 14:09 Richard Salz
2020-08-20 14:45 ` Jim Geist
2020-08-20 15:14   ` Clem Cole
2020-08-20 15:44     ` Steve Nickolas
2020-08-20 16:08       ` John Cowan
2020-08-20 16:30         ` Steve Nickolas
2020-08-20 16:48           ` John Cowan
2020-08-20 19:42         ` Chet Ramey
2020-08-20 23:15           ` John Cowan
2020-08-20 23:17             ` Chet Ramey
2020-08-20 23:20             ` Jim Capp
2020-08-21  9:21             ` Harald Arnesen
2020-08-21 14:42               ` John Cowan [this message]
2020-08-21 15:17                 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-08-21 15:23                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso

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