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The mystery of the Latin pillow
« on: May 12, 2013, 02:33:38 PM »
I was in Göteborg two days ago and had lunch at Språkcaféet. On a chair was a pillow with a Latin text on it. I could have asked the owner where she got the pillow, but I didn't. Today I googled it. It turns out that the text is from Horace, that these pillows exist all over the world and that they are made in - China!  :laugh:

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Re: The mystery of the Latin pillow
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2013, 02:45:48 PM »
Quote from: Lit on May 12, 2013, 02:33:38 PM
I was in Göteborg two days ago and had lunch at Språkcaféet. On a chair was a pillow with a Latin text on it. I could have asked the owner where she got the pillow, but I didn't. Today I googled it. It turns out that the text is from Horace, that these pillows exist all over the world and that they are made in - China!  :laugh:

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Re: The mystery of the Latin pillow
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2013, 02:46:38 PM »
Sic!  :agreed:
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Re: The mystery of the Latin pillow
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2013, 04:39:54 PM »
Are they like fortune cookies but pillows with Latin sayings?
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Re: The mystery of the Latin pillow
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2013, 05:35:25 PM »
  If I fill my apartment with these pillows, will I become a person of culture and sophistication?   :toporly:
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Re: The mystery of the Latin pillow
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2013, 07:21:09 PM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on May 12, 2013, 05:35:25 PM
  If I fill my apartment with these pillows, will I become a person of culture and sophistication?   :toporly:

Nope.  You won't be able to move, but you won't hurt yourself if you happed somehow to fall down.
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Re: The mystery of the Latin pillow
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2013, 11:22:50 PM »
Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 12, 2013, 07:21:09 PM
Quote from: couldbecousin on May 12, 2013, 05:35:25 PM
  If I fill my apartment with these pillows, will I become a person of culture and sophistication?   :toporly:

Nope.  You won't be able to move, but you won't hurt yourself if you happed somehow to fall down.

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Re: The mystery of the Latin pillow
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2013, 12:21:49 AM »
Quote from: hykeaswell on May 12, 2013, 11:22:50 PM
Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 12, 2013, 07:21:09 PM
Quote from: couldbecousin on May 12, 2013, 05:35:25 PM
  If I fill my apartment with these pillows, will I become a person of culture and sophistication?   :toporly:

Nope.  You won't be able to move, but you won't hurt yourself if you happed somehow to fall down.

A Weeble never falls down.

  That's true! :cbc: But the pillows will be nice in case I wobble too far forward!  (Or backward.)
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Re: The mystery of the Latin pillow
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2013, 01:16:20 PM »
I know when I'm outside I decifer languages I don't understand either.
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Re: The mystery of the Latin pillow
« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2013, 03:35:26 PM »
Quote from: richard on May 13, 2013, 01:16:20 PM
I know when I'm outside I decifer languages I don't understand either.

  There are lots of labels and signs in Spanish in my city, how about in yours?  :orly:
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Re: The mystery of the Latin pillow
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2013, 03:37:29 PM »
It's not like road signs in Spanish are hard to decipher.

In Sweden almost every road sign is in Swedish. A few are in English and even fewer are in German.
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Re: The mystery of the Latin pillow
« Reply #11 on: May 14, 2013, 03:38:14 PM »
Taqueria and bodega.
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Re: The mystery of the Latin pillow
« Reply #12 on: May 15, 2013, 01:56:24 PM »
Sweden has turned into a pussy country litigious. I was reading about it the other day online
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Re: The mystery of the Latin pillow
« Reply #13 on: May 15, 2013, 02:08:46 PM »
What does that have to do with a Latin text pillow made in China?  ::)
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Re: The mystery of the Latin pillow
« Reply #14 on: May 15, 2013, 05:17:52 PM »
suplurmism vinus exicatous!
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