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Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Haha. Not a pun ~in~ Latin. Not really much of a pun in any language. Even less since it needed explanation....
"Wayne McAlpine" <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:em6lhe$o55$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
OMG, a pun in Latin.  This list is getting much too rarefied for someone
with my simple tastes.  It's been more than fifty years since I studied
the language in high school.  ;)

Trevor Perry wrote:

The famous quote is "et tu, Brute". As Peter points out, because Brutus
ends in "us", the vocative uses "e" - hence, it is not Brutus, but
Brute, for this quote.

Steve does not end in "us". So, I switched it.

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