NPPF: C.17: Gradus ad Parnassum
Toby G Levy
tobylevy at juno.com
Tue Aug 19 07:55:35 CDT 2003
>so, that student body crying "Grade Us!"
Is it at all possible that Gradus is a perversion of the latin "Gratis,"
which means "iwhtout reward, out of favor." And of course the english
language use of gratis that means "free, or nothing."
Toby
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