On Thu, 9 Jul 1998 14:27:16 -0400 Susan Carroll-Clark
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> Greetings!
>
> This is vaguely off-topic, but since it concerns something we all use on
> this list, I thought I'd ask:
>
> I know the Vatican, from time to time, adds new words to its Latin lexicon.
> Do they happen to have come up yet with a term for "Internet"? (And if not,
> does anyone want to try to invent one)?
>
> Chadwyck-Healey's last publicity letter on the PL Database tells us
that for easier searchability 'conversa sunt a nobis in formam
electronicam Iacobi Pauli Migne _Patrologiae Latinae_ ccxxi volumina.
Atque vos opportunitatem ad _Patrologiam Latinam Database_
acquirendam habetis aut in forma discorum quinque compactilium aut
ponte viva, interrete universali mundano.'
I trust that the list will excuse the ad. for the sake of its
language...
Bella
>
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Bella Millett
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