Re: High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Put your copy of Usage and abusage away and get a grip.
"What?" - that's not a full sentence.
"Like starting"... - Where would you like me to start taking the piss?
"Mea maxima culpa" - You had better be absolutely sure that your Latin is tip top. I think it means (err) let's see mea - me/mine, (hmm) maxima - greatest/maximum, culpa - fault. Now let's run back through and look for declension etc - (oooh) now maxima is part of the adjective "maximum", it's singular, culpa looks feminine, so it's nominative, vocative or ablative (I think). Nom n voc don't make sense so abl (by with or from). "By my greatest fault". Google it - "through my most grievous fault". Oh well not too bad, anyway - that doesn't make too much sense as you have used it.
"Please have mercy" - No, bugger off!
Cheers
Jon
PS I can't give you a better Latin phrase to use but it would probably start with ecce and involve most of the words you used but with different declensions and other half remembered stuff from school days. Stick to English.