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Never For Ever- Forever Forgotten?

From: bsbbs!nrc@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (N. Richard Caldwell)
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1991 23:45:52 -0700
Subject: Never For Ever- Forever Forgotten?
To: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu
Organization: The Big Sky BBS (+1 614 864 1198)

MTARR@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU writes:

>    2. Anybody decipher the Latin in "Delius"?  After "Delius amat",
> it gets pretty fuzzy (actually, this one has been bugging me for a while,
> since I was in high school and wanted to play it for my Latin teacher, but
> didn't dare until I knew what she was singing in case he asked me for the
> translation! :).

I guess you could say that it's latin but I suspect that your latin
teacher may have been a bit puzzled by it. I goes like this...

Delius
Delius amat
Syphilis
Deus
Genius

Who'd have thought that "syphilis" could sound so beautiful?

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