Originally Posted by
meleagertoo
Some people spouting utter bullcrap here.
Fear in latin is 'timor'.
This quote has nothing to do with English 'fear' and as far as I can discover "fear' is not a word that exists in latin.
Quite so.
The word in question is actually "fieri" ("to happen"), in fact "quod non fieri potest" (literally "that which is not able to happen", meaning "the impossible") is still used nowadays in legal circles.
Blimey! Neither I nor old Festig, my long-suffering Latin teacher would ever have believed I would be correcting someone else's Latin! Oorrah!
Likewise dear, long-suffering Mr Binns.
