Friday, February 15, 2008

Best response ever ...

... to a copy editor: Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam. (I am the Roman emperor, and above grammar).

—Sigismund, at the Council of Constance (1414), to a prelate who had dared to point out a few errors; Sigismund was born on this day in 1368.

(Via Today in Literature.)
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