On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Bonobashi <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Peccavi. >> >> Isn't that in Pakistan? >> >> -- b > > It means I have committed a sin. It's in Latin. It was my way of apologising > to Venkat and sending him away somewhere else before his rollicking sense of > humour completely overwhelmed his dicretion. > > There is an urban legend linking this word to the province of Sind in > Pakistan, and it depends on an awful pun.
The pun only works if you translate that as "I have sinned." BTW, I would have the thought the allusion would have been obvious -- where the heck else would those of us who missed out on a classical education have come across the word? :-) -- b
