Re: Rock -- was: Filesystems

["t. bedlam" <bedlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:54:20AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams was only 
   escaped alone to tell thee:

> >So, Fred Flintstone lived pennecontemporaneously with Julie-schist Caesar
> >in the Lapis Aetas?
> 
> Well, Aetas Lapis anyway,  don't forget the english/every-other-language
> adjective-noun order switching thing.  Probably still not conjugated
> correctly, but for my lame humor you can only expect so much.  We don't
> have any Catholic priests on the list?

Ah, yes, the stop de la bus trick. But what about lapis lazuli? Stone of 
the something? Ah:

laz' u- lite, n. [ML lazulum, azure; and -ite.] 
  --Webster's 3rd

Makes sense, as lapis lazuli is deep blue; Michaelangelo used it as the sky 
for _The Last Judgment_. But if it is standard Latin, it reads stone of 
blue. The bluestone. Hm. Everything does sound better in other languages. :)

"Stone Blue." Isn't that a Jimi Hendrix song?

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