From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxz!ihnp4!laidbak!tims Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: interlingual puns Article-I.D.: laidbak.136 Posted: Wed Mar 16 00:16:09 1983 Received: Tue Mar 22 22:29:59 1983 (Not really a pun.) Italian and Latin are closely-related languages, no? Here's a sentence that means one (prosaic) thing in Italian, and another quite different (if slightly strange) thing in Latin: I VITELLI DEI ROMANI SONO BELLI. Italian: Roman calves are beautiful. Latin: Go, Vitellius, to the sound of the war of the Roman gods. (Let's see...have we killed this interlingual pun business?)