Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:28:49 +0000
From: Margaret Graver <Margaret.R.Graver@Dartmouth.EDU>
Subject: Re: 12.0366 argumenta ad risum
Those humanists who are also Latinists should note that cui bono is
incorrectly rendered here: this is the double-dative construction always
missed by students; best rendering would be something like "who benefits?"
"So what"? is not bad either.
Margaret Graver
At 11:01 PM 1/25/1999 +0000, you wrote:
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 12, No. 366.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
>
> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:58:35 +0000
> From: Jim Marchand <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
> >
>Having received a large number (2) of private requests for the list of
>argumenta, I thought I might send it to the whole list. Be prepared to use
>the delete button.
>
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>cui bono? - to what good - the "So what?" argument
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