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At 885 words, this is the longest FFM story I've done so far. Done for Day 12.

Of note is that to do all part of the challenge for today, you had to use 15 Biblical Books (including Genesis), 15 foreign phrases (including plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose), and 15 colors (including periwinkle). And you couldn't have more than one of each in sentence.

I'm sure my professors would be enthuastic that this is what I use a year of Latin, 3 years of French in high school, a year of sort of taking Italian, and one Criminal Justice major to write. ;p Than again, it does prove that I have basically memorized those Latin CJ terms, so one of them might be happy. :lol: And in typical me fashion, I went above the number of each that had to be there.

16 Biblical books: Genesis, John, Judges, Revelations, Numbers, I Chronicles, Song of Songs, Job, Galatians, II Kings, Wisdom, Proverbs, Acts, Lamentations, Romans, and Exodus

Galatians refers to the inhabitants of Galatia, which was a Roman province way back when. Job is technically pronounced differently from job, but who cares? The rest should make sense. I just threw books from all versions of Christianity in there.

16 colors as well: periwinkle, red, pink, amber, turquoise, silver, yellow, blue, green, gold, ruby, grey, purple, brown, teal, crimson

Yes, I used silver that way very deliberately.

22 foreign phrases and words is where I really had fun. I love languages (and the latin phrases in law), so I went a little nuts.. Blue is French, green is Latin, red is Italian.

:bulletblue: Adieu - Goodbye. Of note is that it is often had the sense of being used when you were never going to see the person again.
:bulletgreen: ad hominem - Refers to an argument made against the opponent, not focused on the facts of the case
:bulletred: La Dolce Vita - the sweet life
:bulletgreen: ad nauseam - it means that something has continued to the point of nausea, it has the sense of having been done too much.
:bulletblue: décolletage - the upper part of a woman's torso, commonly applied to clothes that reveal a woman's chest.
:bulletblue: C'est la vie - That's life
:bulletgreen: actus reus - the guilty act in criminal matters.
:bulletgreen: Acta no verba - Deeds, not Words. The current motto of the US Merchant Marine Academy. It can also mean Actions not Words, and is used in that sense by several schools.
:bulletgreen: accusare nemo se debet nisi coram Deo - It means 'no one ought to accuse himself except in the Presence of God'. Refers to the right to enter a plea of not guilty, and that they may also not be pressed to give responses or evidence that would incriminate themselves.
:bulletgreen:ad usum Delphini - for the use of the Dauphin. Related to the way that texts for educating the son of Louis XIV were edited to remove references to things such as sex. As everyone knows, I'm obsessed with the French Kings, and since I couldn't work in "L'État, c'est moi" (which may very well have not actually been said"), "Je m'en vais, mais l'État demeurera toujours" (said by Louis XIV on his death bed, meaning "I depart, but the State shall always remain"), or "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" ("Let them eat cake", for which there is almost no evidence of who - if anyone - actually said it. Certainly not Marie Antoinette, given that it is first referenced in the works written when she was a child.), I had to use this one.
:bulletgreen: alma mater - the school one graduated from, literally meaning "nourishing mother". There are a lot of terms relating to schools and parents, such as 'in loco parentis', in the place of a parent.
:bulletgreen: magna cum laude - one of the three common types of honors in education. For further detail, depending on the school, there is cum laude and magna cum laude (with honor and with great honor, respectively). At my high school, those were the only two - my college adds summa cum laude (with highest honor). There are other types, but they're less common.
:bulletblue: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose - the more things change, the more they stay the same
:bulletgreen: malum in se - one of a pair (the other being malum prohibitum) that refers to how an act may be wrong. Of course, here it is being slightly misued - technically, malum in se means 'wrong or evil in itself'. In the criminal justice system, it refers to the way that certain acts are illegal because they are inherently wrong.
:bulletgreen: malum prohibitum - acts prohibited by the law. It refers to things that are illegal under the law but not because of moral grounds (such as jaywalking or other minor violations)
:bulletblue: noblesse oblige - literally means "nobility obliges". Refers to the standards that the nobility was expected to live up to, including their responsibilities.
:bulletgreen: mens rea - the mental component that accompanies the actus reus, referring to the 'guilty mind' of the defendent.
:bulletblue: Je ne sais quoi - I don't know what. Here she means, I don't know what else to say or what else you could do.
:bulletblue: dénouement - most often used in theater, referring to the conclusion of the plot.
:bulletblue: déjà vu - Meaning "already seen", it refers to the sense that something has been experienced before. This is probably the most common one I use...
:bulletgreen: in absentia - in the absence (of the defendent). Referring to a trial where the defendent is not present.
:bulletgreen: absolvo - I acquit
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JeffreyRebowlski's avatar
Interesting way of starting the story