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In English, the phrase is typically pronounced / m ə ˈ m ɛ n t oʊ ˈ m ɔːr i /, mə-MEN-toh MOR-ee.. Memento is the second-person singular active future imperative of meminī, 'to remember, to bear in mind', usually serving as a warning: "remember!"
"Memento Mori" is a short story written by Jonathan Nolan and published in the March 2001 edition of Esquire magazine. It was the basis for the film Memento directed by his brother Christopher Nolan. [1]
Memento Mori is a novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark published by Macmillan in 1959. The title (Latin for "remember you must die"), references a common trope.This is represented in the novel by a series of insidious phone calls made to the elderly Dame Lettie Colston and her acquaintances.
Damnatio memoriae (Classical Latin pronunciation: [damˈnaːti.oː mɛˈmɔri.ae̯]) is a modern Latin phrase meaning "condemnation of memory" or "damnation of memory", indicating that a person is to be excluded from official accounts.
Memento is a movie for anyone interested in the workings of memory and, indeed, in what it is that makes our own reality. Clinical neuropsychologist Sallie Baxendale writes in The BMJ : The overwhelming majority of amnesic characters in films bear little relation to any neurological or psychiatric realities of memory loss.
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A legal term meaning that something is prohibited because it is inherently wrong (cf. malum prohibitum); for example, murder. malum prohibitum: wrong due to being prohibited: A legal term meaning that something is only wrong because it is against the law (cf. malum in se); for example, violating a speed limit. mandamus: we command