by Smitty
Emphasis mine
Emerging media narrative: If Romney picks Ryan, it will be because he caved to conservative pressure. ow.ly/cRrqOh/t
@ryanlizza— Byron York (@ByronYork) August 9, 2012
Which conservatives are those? The ones who rocked the 2010 election, the ones who put Cruz on the ballot in Texas, or the ones who supported Chick-Fil-A this month to record effect?
Cave to conservatives or beware: jackasses! The Progressive course has failed to produce anything but debt and propaganda. It is dead to us.
*snicker*
I love punnish wordplay, especially bi-lingual wordplay. Kudos!
Brilliant punditry and punnery!
I also love competence with tools, as I did not demonstrate here by publishing this retroactively.
First day, new fingers.
Asini should be Asinos (accusative plural, not nominative). I recommend the Second Imperative form: Caveto Asinos—“Do beware jackasses”.
@allrightblog If the Latin was expanded to say ‘Beware jackasses bearing gifts’ would the jackasses shift from accusative to nominative?
No, you’d use an adjectival participle, for “gift-bearing”, also in the accusative, or plagiarise Vergil:
Caveo asinos et dona ferentes.
Caveto asinos dôrophoros.*
* punning with doryphoros, “spear-carriers”.
Still brilliant! I hope my post today can reach that level …
Pedants!
Let me test my understanding: the phrase “Beware X” has the implied subjet ‘you’, i.e. “(You) beware X,” making X the direct object?
In Latin, Caveo has all sorts of constructions—it can, for instance. be used with ab and the ablative, or with a final clause—but, in the simplest usage “beware X”, yes, the verb is imperative and X is the direct object.