Israel Welcomes The Pope

Not a new issues guy, myself, so I read this headline as:

"[Any Country] Welcomes [Any Event] As A New Tributary From The Great River Of Collector Cash".

But those of you who like this sort of thing ought to know:

Israel Welcomes The Pope

http://www.israelpost.co.il/mall.ns...ocument&L=EN

What, no Latin? I am, like, so Old School.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

I used to collect anything and everything philatelic on Pope Paul VI visit to the Holy Land in 1964 since it was divided between Israel and Jordan.

Pontifex Franciscum relinquent terra sancta. That work for you Ikey? ;)

? relinquent

Were you aiming for the polite version of "Pontifex, ut revertar in patriam!" ?

I had no objections to his visit ;)

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

To be honest I was using google translate and it seems I failed. I have no objections to his visit either, in fact I think it is a great idea.

I have developed what I like to call The Reciprocal Turing Test.

1) I reduce anything I want to say to a series of simple, declarative sentences.

2) I use Google Translate to take each simple, declarative sentence from English to, say, Klingon.

3) I use Babylon Translate to take Google's Klingon back into English.

If each translator can be fooled (the Turing part) into thinking that the other translator is speaking intelligible Klingon, I use that result.

If not, I fiddle the simple, declarative sentence, usually by splitting it into two even more simple, declarative sentences.

Won't work for Latin, sadly, as Babylon does not do Latin.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey