[at-l] de gustibus...

[rafeb at speakeasy.net (Rafe Bustin)]

At 01:11 PM 6/17/2005 -0400, you wrote:

>In a message dated 6/17/2005 12:54:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>infinity1plus1@yahoo.com writes:
>Ok my limited knowledge of Latin and the five online Latin translation 
>services I tried have not been able to decipher this statement. How about 
>a little help? I got something about taste and debate, but it didn't seem 
>to really say anything specific. Taste is not up for debate, maybe?
>
>Rafe Bustin <rafeb@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>De gustibus non est disputandum
>
>Not a Latin Scholar but I think it means (very loosely translated) 
>"Pleasure is not disputed" or "Whatever is your pleasure is not disputed" 
>or "Of pleasure not is (able to be) disputed," but then, as I said, I am 
>not a Latin scholar and have never taken a class in Latin (though Spanish 
>classes were taken in High School).


Google is your friend.  You can just drop that
whole Latin expression into a Google search
window.  The very first hit gives your answer.
(You guessed right, and Skylander got it
right also.)


rafe b.
aka terrapin


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