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Perhaps Et vous (pluralised you)?
by bitlevel 5y ago
Perhaps Et vous (pluralised you)?
- cafeoh 5y ago"vous" if pluralized you in French, not in Latin.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- Xophmeister 5y agoIt’s Latin, rather than French.
- billyjobob 5y agoThat’s French, not Latin.
- Centrino 5y agoIt's Latin, not French. "Et tu" could be from both languages, but the origin of the saying is what Julius Caesar said to Brutus after being deadly stabbed.
- simias 5y agoThe words individually could indeed be French but we'd use the oblique case here, "et toi (aussi), Procter & Gamble?". Also, I'm not sure what the usage would be in classical Latin, but using the singular to talk about a company in French seems perfectly appropriate. IIRC it's the Brits who like to use the plural for companies and institutions.
- CoastalCoder 5y agoDid Caesar actually say that, or was is just a line written into Shakespeare's play? I've never been clear on that.
- acheron 5y agoSome ancient historians quoted him as saying something similar in Greek, though who knows if it actually happened — ancient historians were often “creative”. I think the source of the Latin phrase is Shakespeare though.
- tannhaeuser 5y agoThere's also Tu quoque meaning the same thing in Latin.