Mon 15 Mar, 2010 03:10 pm - Thanks, George! So I guess the variation of the Dan Brown version is bad latin (Totum minor summa partum).
I'd like to make it shorter, though. How would you translate "the whole is... (view)
Mon 15 Mar, 2010 02:58 pm - "The sum of the PARTS is always greater than the WHOLE," or put in another way, "the whole is always lesser than the sum of its parts." Get it now?
I guess "Totum minor... (view)
Mon 15 Mar, 2010 02:53 pm - You are missing that the order of "parts" and "whole" is reversed - we're reversing the expression into expressing a reductionistic idea, not a holistic one. "The sum... (view)
