Re: The Kindly, old Gentleman: RIckover

dott.Piergiorgio wrote:

Dennis ha scritto:

Perhaps it is modern Italian rather than classical Latin?

Nope. I looked at the Italian Wiki article, and it says
it's Latin
too.

Someone never noticed that Italian is actually Latin ? same
relationship as old and current Greek language....

Well, Italian developed from Latin, and stayed pretty close to it,
but it didn't stay the same. Which changed more, Italian from Latin or
Modern Greek from Attic Greek?

I asked on alt language latin, and they told me that "Nomen nescio"
is indeed correct. "Nomen" is a third-declension noun, but it's neuter, so
the accusative case is the same as the nominative. If "nomen" were, say,
masculine gender, it *would* have to be "Nominem nescio." (As I rather
suspect you know, Italian nouns aren't declined for case.)

Dennis
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