Monday, February 12, 2024

On Farce & Affliction



2 comments:

MamaM said...

Alternative title: Afflicting the Nation with Madness, Loss of Memory & Ability to Reason

From the wiki:
"Non compos mentis is a Latin legal phrase hat translates to "of unsound mind": nōn ("not") prefaces compos mentis, meaning "having control of one's mind." This phrase was first used in thirteenth-century English law to describe people afflicted by madness, the loss of memory or ability to reason.

Looking up farce led to new awareness of a verb form, meaning "to stuff" -to improve or expand (something, such as a literary work) as if by stuffing.

edutcher said...

He should be that lucid.