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Thread #149765   Message #3485898
Posted By: GUEST,Jack Sprocket
03-Mar-13 - 01:55 PM
Thread Name: Hymns - Unintelligible?
Subject: RE: Hymns - Unintelligible?
You're both tolerant and lucky, Mr. Happy. Tolerant to endure it; lucky you couldn't make out what utter nonsense the words usually are. I don't know what sect was on offer today, but the Catholic Church used to conduct all its services in Latin. Sonorous and unintelligible, it exuded an aura of timeless saintlihood, ineffable scholarship, and dignity. Then they decided to go pop, and translate it into English. Perhaps their translators came on the cheap, perhaps they was a conspiracy to destroy the Holy Church. But cock- or stitch- up, they couldn't have managed it better from their opponents' point of view. There is little worse than flat champagne (well I exaggerate just a little).

O Loving Pelican!!!!! Non potuistis reddat*.

*That means "You can't vote for the new Pope if you're not a cardinal)