Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:08:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Unhappy Adobe Customer <bsd_appliance@yahoo.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSSCA? Message-ID: <1002740905.3bc49ca9b91c3@webmail.neomedia.it>
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> "Behind". AFAIK/R, In "postfactum, -i", post means **after** (time). -------------- factum ------------------ future --> ante (before) post (after) ^ --- (this answers another question of yours) Post: 1) adv. (space) ~ behind; (time) after. 2) prep. + acc. (space) behind; (time) after; (rank) behind, as in "nemo post te". <guess> In "ex postfacto", the current legal interpretation probably stems from: ------------------- [factum] -------- postfactum ------------ future --> < -------------------------------- ex post[ ]facto (~ retroactively) > For example "That's a moot point" is a phrase often used > to dismiss further argument, but in fact, it means that > the point is subject to discussion. I am not sure this is the case. Moot (< O.E. mot ~ assembly or meeting, cf meet) = 1) "subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty, and typically not admitting of a final decision". 2) (US law) purely hypothtical point or question. I would gather that there may be little point in discussing... "a moot point" in the USA (which moot point is indeed a matter about which there is uncertainty), and so it is, er, dismissed. :-))) -- Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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