From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 10 12: 9:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AFFB37B409 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:09:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from httpd@localhost) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f9AJ8QJ01159; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:08:26 +0200 (CEST) To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: SSSCA? Message-ID: <1002740905.3bc49ca9b91c3@webmail.neomedia.it> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:08:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Unhappy Adobe Customer , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.4-cvs X-WebMail-Company: Neomedia s.a.s. X-Originating-IP: 62.98.237.86 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 > "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". 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