John Hans-pagan-andersen-fox:  

UC Berkeley - German, Old English CSU Stanislaus - Middle English, German University of Heidelberg - Latin, Ancient Greek, Old High German, Middle High German, Gothic United States Navy - Naval Intelligence, Portuguese language--Retired in 1994 Latin and German Teacher 1994-2007 tlhIngan jIH United States Army ROTC Contractor in Culture and Language Programs 2007 to present. Bob: I am still awaiting your move in Blitzkrieg. Married 35 years to Gayle (Davis High 1969) 2 daughters, one married to a Navy guy who drives small boats at high speeds and shoots every weapon known to western man (and the Navy pays him to do it!); younger daughter in the United States Air Force undergoing officer training. As they say in Frankfurt, "Ende gut, alles Goethe!" Or, perhaps to paraphrase Hartmann von Aue: "Ein ritter so gelaeret was, daz er an den buochen laz, swaz er darin geschriben vant..." gnothi seauton! Was bedeutet das? Ich weiss nicht. Das ist Griechisch. (from the Asterix Buecher). Actually I do know what it means... And yes, I have seen the Hermannsdenkmal near the Teutobergerwald...even if it is 60km away from the site of the Roman defeat in 9 AD...die spinnen, die Roemer...Wish we had umlauts...oh, we do but wae may not use them...and there is a difference between "durfte" and "duerfte," by the way... And the near-now is quite definitely near the now, but as the years pass, dark energy is causing the separation between the now and the near-now to expand...in a trillion years or so, they won't even be in the same visible universe, let alone close to each other, if they can survive proton decay, that is. But think how much easier geometry will be...the Geometry of a Nine-Point Universe (it was a class at Berkeley) will be eight points too many, and point will equal ray will equal line will equal plane (indeed, Herve will be able to say, "De point, de line," and mean the same--assuming reincarnation, of course). And the Medieval Church finally will be provably correct, too. With only one point in the universe, it will be the only place possible for three hundred million angels to dance. Of...Expand for more