ANST - VIVAT!

[Matthew Kies]

hello fine folks of ansteorra---

as was most recently pointed out (see below), the common usage of latin 
in our fine kingdom stinks somethin ferocious... not only would "vivant" 
[wee wunt] be more correct than "vivat" [wee wut], but to be accurate, 
you are not usually meaning "they live" or "he/she/it lives"... usually 
what you are doing is wishing them well, or congratulations, a long 
life... in which case any of the following are appropriate:(singular) 
"VIVE" [wee way] (PLURAL) "VIVETE" [wee wa tay]
                       "SALVE" [sul way]     "SALVETE" [sul way tay]

or you could simply say thank you with a "benigne" [bay neeg nay]...

valete,
Pontifex Linguae Maximus 
aka Theo Dallas, 
Mizuiro Michimoto,
Matthew D.J. Kies


>> champion Ansteorra's cause: VIVAT!
>
>Must ... be ... strong ... Must not ... be ... pedantic ...
>
>Oh, who am I fooling?  I *must* be pedantic!
>
>"Vivat" is for one person.  "Vivant" is for two or more people.
>(I asked someone once about whether "Ansteorra" took the singular
>or plural.  I was told the singular is correct, so "Vivat Ansteorra!"
>is indeed OK.)
>
>Daniel "Vocative singular versus plural: 'O nauta!' is fun,
>'O nautae!' is ambitious" de Lincolia


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