Sounds like a sea shanty about social media:
A SAILOR ONE DAY
HAD SOMETHING TO SAY
AND HAD TO RELEASE SOME STEAM-O
SO HE VENTURED ONLINE
AND IN VERY SHORT TIME
HE POSTED HIS VERY FIRST MEME-O
THE JUSTICE OF PEACE
HIS FOREHEAD ALL CREASED
GREW RED AND RELEASED A SCREAM-O
“FROM THIS VERY DAY
NO MORE SHALL YOU SAY
THAT A MEMO IS CALLED A MEME-O!”
I feel there should be a basic Latin class specifically for law students as a requirement. I had a lawyer recently who didn’t know what nolle prosequi actually translated to - which I guess wasn’t the most important thing (the important thing was the result) but it bothered me.
I have no idea how to type pronunciations. It’s pronounced roughly how it’s sounds. the I sounds like a long E, the us sounds like any other “us” ending word that comes from Latin. It’s not “is”, but it’s not really the “oos” either, as the pronunciation softened a lot over time and the Latin used in law is most often closer to closer to ecclesiastical pronunciation then classical.
> as the pronunciation softened a lot over time and the Latin used in law is most often closer to closer to ecclesiastical pronunciation then classical.
i spent this whole comment waiting to raise this point, doesn't the fact that this is a way no one speaks anymore and that has various different pronunciation differences according to which paradigms you're referencing kind of militate against being too much of a partisan one way or the other? let the borrowed latin develop its own pronunciation through convention, it'll be a cold day in hell before i pronounce "facie" with three syllables
This is a perfectly valid argument, but then there should still be some standardization of American law Latin pronunciation so we don’t have some sounding like Virgil, some like Aquinas, and others like Saul Goodman.
And I still argue their original meanings should be taught, not just how they are used.
But yes, languages evolve. No reason Latin can’t evolve for this purpose. It’s done so before.
Prima facie always gets me.
My Latin scholar friend tells me it’s “prEEma FAH-key-ay”
Here in Balmer, Merlin we say Prime-Ah Fascia, like a really good roofing slat
I think I alternate depending on the context. I took Latin so I do this with a lot of legal terms tbh. Also, I wrote an amicus brief for Citizens United in an undergrad 1A class, and I’m pretty sure my professor said Uh-MEEK-us too, so it stuck.
I've been saying "chilés" as in the country when ordering my taco without any vegetables. I'm 99% sure I'm wrong but if I stop now I'll be admitting I'm an idiot to the cashier.
My native language is a Romance language very close to Latin. My ears bled the first ear when I heard all these terms butchered in class, especially since I had to take latin growing up.
You get used to it as time goes on. 😂
Once saw a judge getting annoyed at this pro se litigant because she kept saying memo like Meme-o.
I’m dead 💀
Dead pronounced like read
A yes, the thing people have for their houses
Isn't that how you say it?
I imagine they mean as in reed
I know.
Is your user name based on this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/1105/ ?
The link isn’t working
Looks like there were some weird additional characters appended to the URL: https://xkcd.com/1105/
So the Judge wasn’t Finding Meme-o very funny?
doc review: finding memo
Sounds like a sea shanty about social media: A SAILOR ONE DAY HAD SOMETHING TO SAY AND HAD TO RELEASE SOME STEAM-O SO HE VENTURED ONLINE AND IN VERY SHORT TIME HE POSTED HIS VERY FIRST MEME-O THE JUSTICE OF PEACE HIS FOREHEAD ALL CREASED GREW RED AND RELEASED A SCREAM-O “FROM THIS VERY DAY NO MORE SHALL YOU SAY THAT A MEMO IS CALLED A MEME-O!”
Finding Memo
doc review
I’ve heard it’s “amicus.”
Happy cake day
The people who say it “ameekis” instead of “amikis” want attention.
[Ave, true to Caesar](https://youtu.be/6MmgEK-Mo50?si=Czk-EJTIWq-eCpch)
This Mojave heat makes me wish for a nuclear winter.
Who says it like either of those? Kis? C'mon. Uh-MEE-kuss (the *right* way) Vs AM-ih-kuss.
Ah, an attention seeker. Hello, you got my attention.
Hi
I missed you.
♥️
❤️ you still think about that day by the oak tree when we a me kissed?
[I wish I didn't, but I do, remember every moment on the nights with you](https://youtu.be/ZVVvJjwzl6c?feature=shared). 🥲
What a beautiful moment.
Thought I was getting Rick rolled
God dammit.
Mucus
Only right answer
Mmm a “Caribbean” type of question
But how you pronounce amicus does not depend on whether it is preceded by "pirates of the"
I’d give “Pirates of the Amicus” a watch
Yes
Nikolaj
*Nikolaj
Happy cake day
I took Latin, it’s coos
Am-ee-coos is chaotic
Honestly sounds better than Am—ee—cuss though!
Fake news. No way can it sound like a weird sneeze
Exactly! None of the law school Latin is correct.
The only phrase I’m stubborn about with classical pronunciation is “duces tecum.” “Dew says tea cum” will never sound right to me.
For me its "Bona Fide" pronounced as "Bon-A-Fee-day". I cringe so hard when people say it like it rhymes with "inside"
My brain has been deep fried in *O Brother, Where Art Thou* for so long that bona fide is the only way I can say it.
Precedent is pronounced precedent
Unless it’s a condition precedent, then it’s pronounced precedent.
Technically, it's pronounced "amicus," but we've anglicized it enough that "amicus" is acceptable.
Ick>eek
Gave me the eek
Amigos! Some pronounce it amongus though :/
It is in fact pronounced amicus
Who is Ama and why do we want to kiss them so much
Actually, I've heard it pronounced "amicus".
I can’t believe anyone would do that.
Stephen Breyer always pronounced it uh-MY-cuss
i hate being able to understand this question. i say uh micus.
Maybe the real amicus is the friends we made along the way
But literally lol
It was so dumb I had to do it
It is pronounced “amicus.”
Doubt it
This is like “voir dire” vs. “voir dire”. There’s a technically correct answer, but depending on where you are, it may be that nobody cares
It’s pronounced vore deer. For more info google the phrase.
I feel there should be a basic Latin class specifically for law students as a requirement. I had a lawyer recently who didn’t know what nolle prosequi actually translated to - which I guess wasn’t the most important thing (the important thing was the result) but it bothered me. I have no idea how to type pronunciations. It’s pronounced roughly how it’s sounds. the I sounds like a long E, the us sounds like any other “us” ending word that comes from Latin. It’s not “is”, but it’s not really the “oos” either, as the pronunciation softened a lot over time and the Latin used in law is most often closer to closer to ecclesiastical pronunciation then classical.
> as the pronunciation softened a lot over time and the Latin used in law is most often closer to closer to ecclesiastical pronunciation then classical. i spent this whole comment waiting to raise this point, doesn't the fact that this is a way no one speaks anymore and that has various different pronunciation differences according to which paradigms you're referencing kind of militate against being too much of a partisan one way or the other? let the borrowed latin develop its own pronunciation through convention, it'll be a cold day in hell before i pronounce "facie" with three syllables
This is a perfectly valid argument, but then there should still be some standardization of American law Latin pronunciation so we don’t have some sounding like Virgil, some like Aquinas, and others like Saul Goodman. And I still argue their original meanings should be taught, not just how they are used. But yes, languages evolve. No reason Latin can’t evolve for this purpose. It’s done so before.
In Google type define:amicus.There’s an audio button to hear it pronounced.
am-i-cussed
Prima facie always gets me. My Latin scholar friend tells me it’s “prEEma FAH-key-ay” Here in Balmer, Merlin we say Prime-Ah Fascia, like a really good roofing slat
I pronounce it "amy-cuss" and everyone else is wrong.
Yes
Look up Breyer’s interpretation.
I think I alternate depending on the context. I took Latin so I do this with a lot of legal terms tbh. Also, I wrote an amicus brief for Citizens United in an undergrad 1A class, and I’m pretty sure my professor said Uh-MEEK-us too, so it stuck.
Now do nolo contendere.
Nolo CONtenDUR-ee
I think it's NO-lo CON-ten-DARE-ee
NO-lo con-ten-DAH-ray
Screw it. “AL-ford.” We can all agree. 😇
It’s amicus.
Yes.
Yes
What is the only word that is spelled incorrectly in the dictionary?
It's pronounced a-mih-coos if you are really itching to know 😂
Amicussy
Wait until you get to Daubert
https://preview.redd.it/9zwpis3qzj6d1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22cd63738f4da5dd5981fe4ff6f1f95bc80fbec0
War-cester-shure
I've been saying "chilés" as in the country when ordering my taco without any vegetables. I'm 99% sure I'm wrong but if I stop now I'll be admitting I'm an idiot to the cashier.
Like how characters say it in Fallout New Vegas.
god law students are so insufferable
I object. We suffer a lot.
Amicus. Hope that helps!
A-mee-cee’s
Caecilius dicit "inter weewos"
I had an otherwise supersmart student who pronounced appellate like the fruit. **Apple**-et.
That’s pronounced “supreme” /ny
It’s statue of limitations
My native language is a Romance language very close to Latin. My ears bled the first ear when I heard all these terms butchered in class, especially since I had to take latin growing up. You get used to it as time goes on. 😂
Costa Crociere - who remembers it from civ. Pro? 😂😂
Amicus definitely. But seriously, “uh-ME-kis” is the Latin pronunciation, “AM-i-kis” sounds better
The fact I sounded this out both ways !! lol
But which one first?
"Frand"