Sunday, November 10, 2013

Inrideo Quod Non Intelligunt

Recently on social network coworker posted picture of tattoo with word "Intelligunt" with assumption it is grammatical error of the word "Intelligence". I offered to start hashtag #intelligunt to post similar oxymoron stories.

Turns out the word is from Latin phrase "Damnant Quod Non Intelligunt", which translates to "They Condemn What They Do Not Understand". Though person wasn't condemned, but rather ridiculed, the story did bring comment "you got trolled" :-)

And new phrase was born - "Inrideo Quod Non Intelligunt" -  "They Ridicule What They Do Not Understand" as Latin short alternative to famous quote from Mahatma Gandhi:

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”




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