[lbo-talk] Help on Spanish Civil War

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Thu Oct 21 00:33:22 PDT 2004


Mike Ballard wrote:


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>omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis
>all things change, and we change with them
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little known fact except for those who had to slave over Latin: The verb for "change", "mutari" is a deponent verb -- this is a kind of grammatical weirdness: deponent verbs uses a passive form but it has an active meaning.

Interesting that "to change" is one of these verbs. No accident I think.

Joanna


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