CarlusMagnus
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Hello, back again with a little Latin;
mutatis mutandis - adv with the necessary changes having been made
The phrase is not quite "seldom-used" in mathematics, where one sees, every now and then, a statement like "The second statement follows from the same argument as the first, mutatis mutandis." But it will probably disappear in another generation, since few now study Latin, which reminds me of an old poem about the language, whose author I don't know, but who was obviously a student of that tongue:
Dead are those who spoke it.
Dead are those who learned it.
Dead are those who wrote it.
Blessed death! They earned it.
Note the connection with the English words mutant, mutate, and mutation.