[Hallicrafters] Re: End of the Story (Finally?)

Fri Feb 3 09:05:26 EST 2006

Ancient memories of high school Latin can mislead, as a quick Googling will
establish.The phrase is "pseudo Latin," invented to poke fun at classical
windbags. It apparently appears in a Harvard fight song and was popularized
in WWII by General Vinegar Joe Stllwell, whose version of it was
"Illegitimis non carborundum." Presumably he was aware of the joke. The
ending "-is", according to the Googled site (there are several) is said to
be in the dative case , though my own ancient recollections are that it
should be ablative of means, because "carborundum" is, according to the
Googled site, a gerundive. Whatever. The word "carborundum" did not exist in
Latin (it comes from a Malay word), and "illegitim-whatever" was not used in
ancient Rome to convey the meaning of questionable parentage.

Check it out.  Back to boat anchors?

Woody Demitz
Former K0ODR, W4VNA, PA0SHD, KN4QIU

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>    1. Airplanes & Halliscratchers (TC Dailey)
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>    3. Translation (Paul Galpin)
>    4. RE: Airplanes & Halliscratchers (Dave Harmon)
>    5. Re: Translation (Sandy W5TVW)
>    6. RE: Airplanes & Halliscratchers (Ian)
>    7. Re: Airplanes & Halliscratchers (W4AWM at aol.com)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:32:56 -0700
> From: "TC Dailey" <daileyservices at qwest.net>
> Subject: [Hallicrafters] Airplanes & Halliscratchers
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> My buddy took a tour through Davis-Monthan, and in Eisenhower's old
> "Columbine" aircraft, there's an SX-62A, mounted sideways... interesting,
> eh?  Boy, would I love to get THAT radio... never mind, I have 2 SX-62A's
> now, and looking at another.
>
> TC
>
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> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:28:18 EST
> From: Wormchile at aol.com
> Subject: [Hallicrafters] Re: End of Story
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> As an old Latin student, the proper phrase is:
>
> Illegitimati non carborundum
>
> (properly pluralized)
>
> Regards
>
> Jim Mandelik, KD8AKJ
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 00:00:46 +0200
> From: "Paul Galpin" <galpinp at absamail.co.za>
> Subject: [Hallicrafters] Translation
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> > Like the symbol for telephone is laterally translated "electric talk",
> > and the one for automobile is "self move wagon"!  (As I remember)
>
> So what's the difference, then? tele-phone means "far-talk", and
auto-mobile
> is "self move" (both Greek) and television is a bastard mixture of Greek
> "tele" (afar) and Latin "vision" (seeing)
>
> Paul Galpin
> ZS2PG
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:43:42 -0600
> From: "Dave Harmon" <K6XYZ at valornet.com>
> Subject: RE: [Hallicrafters] Airplanes & Halliscratchers
> To: "'TC Dailey'" <daileyservices at qwest.net>,
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> That aircraft was at Wright-Pat AFB in 90'. During a tour, I was trying
> to pry that SX-62A outta its mounts. There were too many people around
> dang it.
> It sure was beautiful.
>
> Regards
>
> Dave Harmon
> NSRCA 586
> K6XYZ[at]valornet[dot]com
> Broken Arrow, Ok.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:hallicrafters-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of TC Dailey
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 1:33 PM
> To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Hallicrafters] Airplanes & Halliscratchers
>
> My buddy took a tour through Davis-Monthan, and in Eisenhower's old
> "Columbine" aircraft, there's an SX-62A, mounted sideways...
> interesting,
> eh?  Boy, would I love to get THAT radio... never mind, I have 2
> SX-62A's
> now, and looking at another.
>
> TC
>
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> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 19:47:42 -0600
> From: "Sandy W5TVW" <ebjr at i-55.com>
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Translation
> To: <galpinp at absamail.co.za>, <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
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> There are a LOT of words DIRECTLY related to Latin and Greek!
> I wish I'd taken Latin in school.  I've even though about taking it here
at the local university
> just for fun.
> Very amazing Language that almost everything is derived from.
> I remember hearing from several Russians that Cyrillic is derived from the
Greek alphabet.  I
> learned to
> read a few Greek ship names in Greek writing over the years!
>
> 73,
> Sandy W5TVW
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> From: "Paul Galpin" <galpinp at absamail.co.za>
> To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
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> Subject: [Hallicrafters] Translation
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> | > Like the symbol for telephone is laterally translated "electric talk",
> | > and the one for automobile is "self move wagon"!  (As I remember)
> |
> | So what's the difference, then? tele-phone means "far-talk", and
auto-mobile
> | is "self move" (both Greek) and television is a bastard mixture of Greek
> | "tele" (afar) and Latin "vision" (seeing)
> |
> | Paul Galpin
> | ZS2PG
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 20:12:46 -0800
> From: "Ian" <ianwebb5 at comcast.net>
> Subject: RE: [Hallicrafters] Airplanes & Halliscratchers
> To: <K6XYZ at valornet.com>, <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
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> The Air Force 1 at the Boeing Museum in Seattle also has an SX-62 (maybe
"A"
> - don't remember it's been several years since I was at the museum)  for
the
> President to use.
>
> Ian, K6SDE
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:hallicrafters-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dave Harmon
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 4:44 PM
> To: 'TC Dailey'; hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: RE: [Hallicrafters] Airplanes & Halliscratchers
>
> That aircraft was at Wright-Pat AFB in 90'. During a tour, I was trying
> to pry that SX-62A outta its mounts. There were too many people around
> dang it.
> It sure was beautiful.
>
> Regards
>
> Dave Harmon
> NSRCA 586
> K6XYZ[at]valornet[dot]com
> Broken Arrow, Ok.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hallicrafters-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:hallicrafters-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of TC Dailey
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 1:33 PM
> To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Hallicrafters] Airplanes & Halliscratchers
>
> My buddy took a tour through Davis-Monthan, and in Eisenhower's old
> "Columbine" aircraft, there's an SX-62A, mounted sideways...
> interesting,
> eh?  Boy, would I love to get THAT radio... never mind, I have 2
> SX-62A's
> now, and looking at another.
>
> TC
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 23:47:03 EST
> From: W4AWM at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Airplanes & Halliscratchers
> To: ianwebb5 at comcast.net
> Cc: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
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> President Kennedy had an SX-62 installed aboard Air Force 1, Tail number
> 26000 and also in one of his White House Offices.  I have been trying to
obtain a
> photo of him with either receiver, but it is not known if one exists. I
have
> contacted the Kennedy Library and they are hopefully researching it.
>
> 73,
>
>  John,  W4AWM
>
>
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