Veni Dixi Vici

[Pastor Josh]

Once again, I'm putting on my pedant pants.  "Dixi" is "I said", not "I spoke".  "I spoke" is "eloqui".  I have said my piece.

[Pastor Josh]

Other than that, it's a great device.  Kudos!

[Sara from Chicago]

Tom seemed to favor "dixi," Pastor Josh, so that's what I used.

Thanks everyone for your encouraging words! I'm a little busy with comics* lately but I'll try to draw some Terre T and AP Mike figures in the next few days.

*Hey Pais, the internet's only journal comic written and drawn by a cat

[Pastor Josh]

With all due respect to Tom, he' wrong.  And I'm a jerk.  Still, it's really good.

[KickTheBobo]

With all due respect to Tom, he' wrong.  And I'm a jerk.  Still, it's really good.

you wanna take on Wikipedia, Bible Boy?

* Dixi — popular Latin expression, literally translated as "I have spoken". When used, it usually means: "I have said all that I had to say and thus the argument is settled".

[yesno]

Why would you think that there'd be a one to one translation, exactly capturing the subtle difference between speak, and say? Don't trust dictionaries to capture those shades of meaning.

[Sara from Chicago]

I guess we'll have to ask a native Latin speaker.

[fonpr]

EGO venit EGO orator EGO victum


http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=Latin&to=English

[Pastor Josh]

I will gladly take on wikipedia.  I did so recently (and I think successfully) on the topic of the age of the Peanuts characters.  I think your citation is using a meaning that comes more from scholarly rhetoric than actual Latin, but maybe I'm wrong. 

Yesno, I think I'm right about this not because I looked it up but because I have studied Latin.  "Dixi" just doesn't feel right in this case.  Loquar has more of a connotation of holding forth or public speaking than dicere.  I freely admit to being a jerk for still arguing this, and I also confess I probably wrong (as I usually am), and it certainly sounds better in English in this phrase.  However, I am who I am, and one of the things I am is an obnoxious pedant who will argue thing like this until you walk away or punch me.  Often even after I am already persuaded I'm wrong.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I always liked you, Pastor, but this makes me REALLY REALLY like you:

I will gladly take on wikipedia.  I did so recently (and I think successfully) on the topic of the age of the Peanuts characters. 

[Pastor Josh]

Thank you, sir.  It was a twitter debate I had the other night involving many good FOTs.  Wikipedia said Linus was seven, but it had that nasty "citation needed" mark.