Of Fear
I learned a new word today
Walloonphobia - Fear of the Walloons.
I'm actually quite scared by this definition because Walloons are apparently something people can be scared of, but I don't have the slightest idea what a walloon is nor why it should be 'the Wallons' with a capitalized W. I could be experiencing walloons day in day out and not knowing I should be scared of them. Food for thought.
Latin lesson:
Catapultam habeo nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.
Walloonphobia - Fear of the Walloons.
I'm actually quite scared by this definition because Walloons are apparently something people can be scared of, but I don't have the slightest idea what a walloon is nor why it should be 'the Wallons' with a capitalized W. I could be experiencing walloons day in day out and not knowing I should be scared of them. Food for thought.
Latin lesson:
Catapultam habeo nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.
posted by Gillian at 9:21 AM
4 Comments:
The only latin I ever learnt was from the Asterix books. They used to have little signs on Roman buildings and stuff.
"Cave canem" - beware of the dog.
Walloons: The French speaking population of Belgium.
Plenty to be scared of!
Shudder
I learnt one too
"gillianisation"
It's where you get mad comments left on your blog :-)
Are you sure it wasn't "The Waltons"?
Now they used to scare me, very strange carry on all together.
All that "goodnight..." malarky, not natural at all, definitely a bit suspicious IMHO.
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