From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 10 11:13: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2AEC37B405 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:12:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.244.107.249.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.244.107.249]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA07166; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:12:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BC48FCA.93D7FA27@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:13:30 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Unhappy Adobe Customer , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSSCA? References: <20011008193423.77229.qmail@web11901.mail.yahoo.com> <3BC34784.4D56D9DF@mindspring.com> <3BC404A6.89276494@mindspring.com> <3BC410E4.ACF8074B@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > "Ex pos facto" refers to a law enacted after the fact not being > > Once again, neither "i pos facto" nor "ex pos facto" have any meaning. > The expression you are thinking of is "ex post facto". I learned most of my Latin from Italian and Hispanic sources. If you check the net for references, you will see that the spelling "ex pos facto" -- without the "t" -- is commonly used. > "I pos facto", on the other hand, doesn't mean anything at all. It > probably stems from your confusing "ex post facto" with "ipso facto" > ("consequently" or "in and of itself") which is probably a contraction > of "ex ipso facto" meaning "due to this very fact" or "due to the fact > itself". I am not confusing "ipso facto"; I'm dyslexic, but I'm not _that_ bad. 8-). So how in Latin would _you_ say "before the fact"? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message