Latin
Latin, which has no single words for "yes" and "no", also employs echo answers. For example:
- Nōnne Doofus molestus discipulus est?
- "Doofus is an annoying student, isn't he?"
- Est.
- "He is."
- Num Doofus litterās memoriā tenēre potest?
- "Doofus cannot remember the alphabet, can he?"
- Nōn potest.
- "He cannot."
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Famous quotes containing the word latin:
“Whither goest thou?”
—Bible: New Testament Peter, in John, 13:36.
The words, which are repeated in John 16:5, are best known in the Latin form in which they appear in the Vulgate: Quo vadis? Jesus replies, “Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.”
“It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)