Comments on: What is the Latin for Bada Bing? http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2007/04/09/what-is-the-latin-for-bada-bing/ Crafting Words with Impact Tue, 15 May 2012 00:53:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bob Kincaid http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2007/04/09/what-is-the-latin-for-bada-bing/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Bob Kincaid Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:45:22 +0000 http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2007/04/09/what-is-the-latin-for-bada-bing/#comment-165 Hey, even a wild-eyed Scots/English/Welshman like me occasionally rues 1453. Seems like Constantinople ought to be Constantinople, and not Istabbul. Of course, there's nothing new in that. See: George Gordon, Lord Byron. I beg to differ with you, however, on M. Tullius Cicero. He knew full well he was a provincial and worked his butt off to shed that Picenese accent, to the point of spending a year at Rhodes (was it?) studying not only rhetoric, but decent elocution, as well. Oddly enough, the biggest part of building his voice turned out to be building his body. He was a scrawny one, that Cicero: so scrawny, in fact, that it was probably part of what kept him out of the military, to his eternal scorn. Hey, even a wild-eyed Scots/English/Welshman like me occasionally rues 1453. Seems like Constantinople ought to be Constantinople, and not Istabbul. Of course, there’s nothing new in that. See: George Gordon, Lord Byron.

I beg to differ with you, however, on M. Tullius Cicero. He knew full well he was a provincial and worked his butt off to shed that Picenese accent, to the point of spending a year at Rhodes (was it?) studying not only rhetoric, but decent elocution, as well. Oddly enough, the biggest part of building his voice turned out to be building his body. He was a scrawny one, that Cicero: so scrawny, in fact, that it was probably part of what kept him out of the military, to his eternal scorn.

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