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Just wanted to share since I didn't know what it meant and googled it. It's "mea culpa". I love when people use these old Latin phrases. Never got (or taken) th
by figgis 8y ago
Just wanted to share since I didn't know what it meant and googled it. It's "mea culpa". I love when people use these old Latin phrases. Never got (or taken) the chance to learn about it and it's always a very quick history lesson alongside learning a new phrase!
>In about 1220, the rite of public penance in Siena for those who had committed murder required the penitent to throw himself on the ground three times, saying: Mea culpa; peccavi; Domine miserere mei ("Through my fault. I have sinned. Lord, have mercy on me").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mea_culpa#Religious_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mea_culpa#Religious_use
- tenaciousDaniel 8y agoGoddamnit, I always misspell it. Interesting; had never read about the origin of the term.
- stochastic_monk 8y agoIf it helps for the future, it's pronounced "mayuh coolpuh", so the e makes the "ay" sound.
- jdmichal 8y agoThe IPA is /me.a kul.pa/. So that's a reasonable approximation. The vowels are off. If you know Spanish pronunciation, it's exactly the same for this word. Specifically, The E sound is actually the single-vowel /e/, not the diphthong /aɪ/. The "uh" in both words is closer to "ah".
- poopchute 8y agoThe latin way to say "my bad"
- tannhaeuser 8y agoUt desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
- dang 8y agoI fixed it for you. If you want it changed back, let me know.
- posterboy 8y agomiserere does sound much closer to misery than mercy. In English, it also "A medieval dagger, used for the mercy stroke to a wounded foe" ... That seems more like it.
- thomasfortes 8y agoMea culpa is pretty common and translate similarly in Brazil (minha culpa), after all, portuguese is a language that has latin as an ancestor, but my favorite and the one that confused me the most the first time I saw is "Quod erat demonstrandum", almost all mathematical proofs that I did in college had Q.E.D. instead of the portuguese C.Q.D. at the end to indicate that that was the point where the proof was finished.