[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge Lending Library?

[Brian Molnar]

No no no no no. You got it all wrong. It's

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit Noisebridgicus.

- Brian



On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org>wrote:

> Mikolaj Habryn writes:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com>
> wrote:
> > > A sticker or stamp serves a different purpose than a checkout system.
> > > There is no reason I can think of not to have a stamp like:
> > >
> > >  Ex Libris Noisebridge
> > > If found, please return to
> > >  2169 Mission, 3rd floor
> > >  San Francisco, CA, USA
> > >
> > > also with the logo & URL of course.  A checkout/reminder system is
> > > separate and I personally have no opinion on that.
> > >
> > > Will anyone actually object if I order a stamp as I have described
> above?
> >
> > Yes. It's syntactically incorrect. In this context Noisebridge should
> > be in the genitive case, and since the word fits best into the third
> > declension formwise, it should be Ex Libris Noisebridgis. Furthermore
> > the address should be Via Ecclesia MMCLXIX, Solum Tertium, Oppidum
> > Sancti Francisci.
>
> Some foreign words are indeclinable (traditionally Hebrew names, for
> example) and I was inclined to think that "Noisebridge" was a plausible
> example of this if given in English.  One reason that many authors, like
> Linnaeus, Latinized their names was to allow them to fall into a Latin
> declension, maybe because they regarded non-Latin names as indeclinable.
>
> Via Ecclesia(e) is five blocks to the west.
>
> Some people say Franciscopolis (loc. Franciscopoli).
>
> http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscopolis_%28California%29
>
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