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seydor
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Sic transit gloria nvidii
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HPsquared
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Linguistic deep lore: "invidia" is Latin for "envy".
madmask
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Also italian
fakedang
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That was the reasoning behind the NVidia name choice btw - the cofounders wanted the competition to be envious of their company's capabilities.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Huang
fennecbutt
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Explains invidious, I suppose.
WithinReason
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So it's extra fitting!
abdulhaq
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5 years of Latin finally pays off
smitterle
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Sorry for the nitpick: I'd expect Gen Sg to be nvidiae - i is for o declension
seydor
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and what would be the plural of nvidia?
Intermernet
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"now don't do it again!"
hearsathought
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Sic transit gloria nvidiae
snickmy
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thank you for conjugating correctly the 1st declension to the genitive, we all, that wasted many years studying latin, te salutant!
Quarrel
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Best thing I've read today.
Bravo.
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