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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: sf & language
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 03:07:05 GMT
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In article <5ebilu$581@van1s03.cyberion.com>,
Steve Patterson <no_spam_spatterson@wwdc.com> wrote:
>In article <russa-1702971341410001@207.13.138.206>, russa@candesa.com (Russell Asplund) says:
>>
>>In article <5e8pnn$4ib@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca>, gwiseman@uoguelph.ca
>>(Loki) wrote:
>>> 
>>> Aliens ex machina?  :)
>>> 
>>> But yes, deus ex machine is a silly way to resolve things in any genre.
>>
>>Or would that be "Dues ex aliens"?
>
>Well, entire movies have been shot about "aliens ex hommes".(sp?)

"alieni ex homine" (plural "hominibus"), if my meagre schoolboy Latin is
to be trusted.

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