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On 10/7/2014 Clover29 said:

On 10/7/2014 jackthebear said:

I just saw that on the news just now.

I think the order of words is important in Latin. Never took it

Somebody should have checked.

"A little learning is a dangerous thing", Alexander Pope

Word order is irrelevant in Latin. Because verbs and nouns decline and inflect, there doesn't need to be a word order to determine sense. Amor vincit omnia = omnia vincit amor (love conquers everything).

That's interesting Clover. The only Latin I know other than stuff like carpe diem is from the Jackie Kennedy Castellani bracelet I bought in a moment of weakness when they retired the collection: Non relinquam/Non relinques (I will never give up on you/You will never give up on me.)