do your research, writers!

[deird1]

NCIS is still annoying me with its abuse of Latin...


Rewatching season 6, and once again gritted my teeth at the following exchange:

Abby: "Gibbs! Primitus Victor*? It's Latin. It means 'first victim'."
Gibbs: "Yeah. I know, Abbs."

* from a message the killer left them


GRRRR.

No. No it does not mean that. It does not mean anything of the sort.

'Primitus victor' is indeed Latin. And it means 'first winner'. 'First victim' would be 'primitus victima'.

I understand why they did it. They thought "victor" sounded cooler, and didn't think anyone would notice. But that's no excuse for doing it wrong.


*is petty and pedantic*

Comments

[hickumu]

I confess, I've never really watched NCIS mostly because I've heard of its gross abuse of computers >_< . It's almost nice to know that their research fail isn't confined.

You'd think Latin would be easy not to mess up on, though. And they'd have to know a lot more people wuold notice than, say, including "levels" on Prince of Persia.

Honestly, the first thing I thought of reading this was the scene with painting the walls in "Monty Python's Life of Brian".

[deird1]

You'd think someone would care enough to do it right.

(*loves your icon*)

[hickumu]

You'd think. But so many things, not just television, would be better about the world if that were the case.

(Hee! Thanks. I have good suppliers.)