Ventrix is in the News Again

[Ferriciean Aetas]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04 ... unctuated/

[Gorkeyah]

And that's why he gave up raiding? sheesh!

[Ventrix]

I don't take kindly to being 'outed' by someone I considered a friend.

Raiding and grammar vigilantism are both noble pursuits but it was obvious that the country's signage was losing all discipline. I had to make a difficult choice. Wasn't it Winston Churchill who said that you can measure civilisations by the way they treat animals and their use of the apostrophe?

[Chania]

Wasn't it Winston Churchill who said that you can measure civilisations by the way they treat animals and their use of the apostrophe?

No, he said: "We will not say hereafter that the Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks!"

Smart man, he was, smart man...

[Ferriciean Aetas]

He was actually quoting Herodotus ... and you mistranslated, Chania.

Όπως έγραψε κάποτε ο Ηρόδοτος, οι Έλληνες, όπως όλοι οι ήρωες, πολεμούν σαν το πιο διάσημο πολεμιστή: Ferriciean.

(punctuation added for anglicization)

[Ventrix]

The paradox of tolerance arises when a tolerant force, by virtue of its tolerance, allows intolerant forces to limit and ultimately destroy tolerance.

Karl Popper

[Ferriciean Aetas]

The paradox of tolerance arises when a tolerant force, by virtue of its tolerance, allows intolerant forces to limit and ultimately destroy tolerance.

Karl Popper

If this were Facebook, I'd "like" you.