Topic: Latin

"Ratiocinatores olivas numerant."

Translation:The bookkeepers count olives.

August 29, 2019

7 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/profile/AnAlienHere

    Stay in school kids. IF YOU DON'T ULL BE A BOOK KEEPER COUNTING OLIVES

    August 29, 2019
    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/AnUnicorn
    • 18

    Are you kidding me? I got a college degree and ended up becoming a beancounter anyways.

    September 3, 2019
    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Nick_Pr
    • 16

    But at least it's not olives.

    September 3, 2019
    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Sarah851648
    • 15

    TIL the expression "bean counter". In German we have "Erbsenzähler" – not specifically for accountants, though, but for people who are pedantic in general.

    September 12, 2019
    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Nick_Pr
    • 16

    I'd accept olives as payment

    September 3, 2019
    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/water_color

      Is it a real Latin word or just some neologism we could live without?

      September 5, 2019
      https://www.duolingo.com/profile/AnUnicorn
      • 18

      Cicero, De Officiis, 1.18.59 (44 BCE):

      Haec igitur et talia circumspicienda sunt in omni officio [et consuetudo exercitatioque capienda], ut boni ratiocinatores officiorum esse possimus et addendo deducendoque videre, quae reliqui summa fiat, ex quo quantum cuique debeatur intellegas.

      Though if you're big on the usability of the language, Latin might not be the right one to learn...

      September 5, 2019
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