November 2024 - Scientia potestas est

Google claims title is latin for “knowledge is power”. i stood by the window, looking at the surrealistic scene of my new reality. of all the things i have left behind on earth, i did not think the first thing i would miss would be the sun.

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Indebted SFW omnibus edition; parts 6-10 of 10

- new words: - "feptentrio" comes from latin “septentrio”, meaning “northerly”, appropiated to “north” - “tramuntana”, comes from catalan “tramuntana”, meaning “north”.

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Housewarming

Vespa is the latin word for wasps." padding softly away from the window, the lion took up his tiger lover in his arms and held him close.

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JIH Chapter 9: Jungle for the Trees

Everything was haphazard with unrecognizable lettering randomly scattered about; bizarre squiggly characters were sloppily mixed with latin-script and numbers.

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Breaking Through

It was a simple shortpaw word, came from _copper,_ which had some origin somewhere in latin or french or something. darkstar would know, or he'd find out. i just felt it was disrespectful, cheapening.

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A Single Candle, Part 3

"trust a scientist to know his latin." grinning, perhaps at himself, the firefox confessed, "i'm trying very hard not to deluge you with a thousand questions. i'm also trying to hold on to what is a new definition of 'reality,' at least for me.

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Spring Fever Chapter 4: Hot Bretons (RAW)

"non hobo ideam quad iusti dick-runt" you say in broken latin. "dick runt?" jenny laughs. "i hope that's not the case, though what qualifies as a runt with real people?" she mumbles beneath her breath.

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A Child is Born in Bethlehem

"true, the latin church celebrates the birth of christ in december, but it was not always so. church scholars are torn between a date in late march or sometime in later april to early may for the birth of christ.

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Collar 12 -- Pax Vo Biscum

_jesus flevit,_ in latin. it means, 'jesus wept'. the teachings say that jesus was god incarnate, in fleshly form. that means that god cries too." "is that what you believe?"

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Dragon's Christmas Adventure

Puss interrupted in his rich latin accent, "i resent your crass remark donkey. if your were not a mere bumpkin i would challenge you to a duel".

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Chapter 4: First Day (Part 2)

"it's latin, it means prepared for all or ready for anything. dead languages and quotes were a popular topic around the dinner table." milo said again, scratching the side of his head. "you talk about dead languages over dinner? with who?" faya asked.

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R/7 The Deep

They needed to run it through a latin rosetta to read the original documentation. by the time everything was done, you had four versions of the book, and not one of them in a language spoken by the original penner."

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