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Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
¡Todos bueno!
Oops. That's Latino, not Latin.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Numquam titillandus draco dormiens
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
What's that—never tickle a sleeping dragon?
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Yep. Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
Carpe Canem!
Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.
Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
In the real world, from the University of South Wales: Manu et Mente
Also, from the University of New England: Veritatis Studium Prosequi
From Terry Pratchett: "Morituri Nolumnus Mori" "Sodomy non sapiens" "Fabricati Diem, Punc" "Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum." "Nil mortifi, sine lucre." "Nullus Anxietas" "Quod Subigo Farinam"
[ July 11, 2005, 01:57 PM: Message edited by: TomDavidson ]
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Ahhh, translations for those of us who don't read Latin please?
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
In various degrees of accuracy (noting, mind you, that some of these are deliberate MIStranslations):
"Thinking about working." "Verily, students should be prosecuted." "We who are about to die, don't want to." "Buggered if I know." "Make my day, punk." "Where lives their testicles, lives their hearts and minds." "No killing without payment." "No worries." "Because I knead the dough."
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Haha, nice, except for that whole prosecuting students thing...
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Hey, as long as they're undergrads... Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :
I don't speak Latin, so this is probably wrong, BUT ...
Carpe Piscis!
Seize the carp.
Posted by Crotalus (Member # 7339) on :
Ego numquam pronunciare medacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus.
I never tell lies, but I am a savage.
From Braveheart
Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
quote:Carpe Canem!
A friend of mine had that as her displayed name on the VAX system in college. I laughed when I figured out what it meant.
Don't have any favorite latin (kat stole the one I would have quoted) but my favorite Klingon phrase is "nuqDaq yuch Dapol" -- "Where do you keep the chocolate?" Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
Veni, Vici, Vetinari.
Posted by IdemosthenesI (Member # 862) on :
Sic Semper Tyrannus! Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
On the back of a shirt the kids made for my dad's retirement from teaching:
Absum.
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur.
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time Posted by Gryphonesse (Member # 6651) on :
I can't believe I'm the first to post this:
In Vino Veritas
edited to add: a nice pinot grigio, please Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
I don't remember the exact latin, but in "A Fish Called Wanda" everytime Ken mistakenly kills a dog instead of the old ladyhe's trying to knock off, there is a boys choir over the funeral scenes. They are singing something very close to: "Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. The doggie died."
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I heard "Carpe Nicto" was Seize the Night, but I've been informed my Hatrack Latin Lovers that is incorrect. I like it though
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
"Nocti", I think?
then again, from a radio commercial:
"Carpe per diem... seize the expense check."
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
My favorite "Latin quotation". Hmmm.
Not actually in Latin, it's about Latin. My grandma wrote it on her Latin book covers; my mom wrote it on hers, I wrote it on mine, and quickly started a trend. It's a little rhyme that goes like this:
Latin's a dead language, It died across the sea. It killed off all the Romans, And now it's killing me!
Now, don't get me wrong. I loved Latin. And neither my mom nor I was required to take it; we chose to.
But it's such a cute little rhyme, and I adore it. Posted by johnsonweed (Member # 8114) on :
which other site would there even be a response?!?!?!?
I think...none?
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
Periisem nisi periisem. I had perished, had I not perished.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Karthago delendum est!
Carthage must be destroyed! Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
My own personal motto is in Latin:
Scientia omnia vincit.
"Knowledge conquers all."
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
In his ordo est ordinem non servare.
The only rule is not to follow the rules.
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae.
There is no great genius without a certain admixture of madness.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
quote:Originally posted by Architraz Warden: Carpe Canem!
Now I was taught in poetry class that carpe diem is translated as "seize the day" but that it literally means "eat the day". So would that make Carpe Canem mean "eat the dog"? (I never took latin, so this is probably something obvious to everyone but me.)
Posted by johnsonweed (Member # 8114) on :
Dum spiro spero
While I breathe, I hope
Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
I thought the most abstract literal translation of carpe was "to pluck". I don't think I've ever heard it mentioned as "to eat", but I have never taken Latin so I'm really not in the know.
I love watching people struggle through the translation...
"Seize the... dog?"
Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
SPQR
Senatus, Populescus, Qua Romanus
The Senate and the People of Rome.
Posted by Avin (Member # 7751) on :
Osibili si ergo, fortibuses in ero. Nobili demis trux: sewatis enim? Cowsendux!
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Dim Sum
I'm not too bright.
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
Sumus quod sumus.
The town motto of Lake Wobegon, MN.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
We are what we are? Is that it?
Very Popeye of them. Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
Semper in excreto, sed profundum variat.
quote: Sumus quod sumus.
Reminds me of a Professor Harvey Narrol song:
"We're here, because we're here, because we're here, We're here, because we're here, because we're here; We're here, because we're here, because we're here - We're here, because we're here, because we're here!"
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
quote: Latin's a dead language, It died across the sea. It killed off all the Romans, And now it's killing me!
And my father taught me:
Latin is a language As dead as dead can be; It's killed the ancient Romans, And now it's killing me.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
JH,
In how many languages have you posted today?
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
SPQR = senatus populusque romanus Gramatically, "The Senate and the Roman People".
On "carpe canem," are you sure it isn't "carpe cenam"? Canem is indeed dog, but cenam is "dinner or meal".
-- EL, anal beyond belief
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
As many nurses can attest, it is good to have PRN orders, that is, pro re nata (as the situation demands; as needed).
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I used to have a pin that said
quote:Carpe Noctem! I get more done after midnight than most people do all day.
Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :
Non Iligitimus Carborundum
Roughly: Don't let the Bastards Grind you down. Literally: Don't let the illigitimates grind, latin for bastard is Bothos
I also really like,
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam
I will either find a way or make one.
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
quote: In how many languages have you posted today?
Altogether - English, Hebrew, Ancient Aramaic, Arabic, and fragments of Latin, Czech, French, German, Yiddish, Italian and possibly even Cantonese.
But today - English, Hebrew, Yiddish and Latin.
Did I miss anything?
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jonathan Howard:
Did I miss anything?
Umm, humility?
Posted by BunnV (Member # 6816) on :
The Motto for my highschool is
Non verbis sed operis
My friends and I would joke around and tell everyone that didn't know what it meant that the translation was "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." But all you latiners out there will know the motto means "Not by words but by deeds."
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester: Dim Sum
I'm not too bright.
Hah! I eat Dim Sum on Sundays...
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
Humility? Huh?
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
She means you're bragging. You do it a lot, Jon.
Posted by johnsonweed (Member # 8114) on :
What was the quote in the Oracle's kitchen in the Matrix?
I think it was "know thy self"
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Thank you, Tante! I hear PRN all the time, but no one ever knows what the initials stand for. Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
Tom, that was one of the only two things you've been telling me since October. Poetry like Yoda you said that I write, and that the other one was.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Maybe he keeps telling you for a reason.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jonathan Howard:
quote: Sumus quod sumus.
Reminds me of a Professor Harvey Narrol song:
"We're here, because we're here, because we're here, We're here, because we're here, because we're here; We're here, because we're here, because we're here - We're here, because we're here, because we're here!"
I thought that was Rush? Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
Jon Boy - of course he keeps telling me for a reason. But he finds nothing else to say.
And Jim-Thee - I know that Professor Harvey Narrol sang it to me in person, I don't know the origin, though.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
I was joking... Rush's "Roll the Bones" features "Why are we here? Because we're here..." in the chorus.
Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
Yes, it is indeed supposed to be Canem. Mostly because I mstarted using it randomly after one of our classes watched Dead Poet's Society, and most of the class was on a spree of saying "Carpe Diem". I was hoping Carpe Canem would confuse some of them enough to make their heads explode.
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
I still loved "semper in excreto, sed profundum variat", or something very similar.
What about "nunquam cogitas - ergo non es"? my own variant.
[ July 13, 2005, 06:37 PM: Message edited by: Jonathan Howard ]
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
Nemo me lacessit impune
Nobody better f*ck wit' me. Or in more formal language, "Nobody touches me with impunity."
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
quote: of course he keeps telling me for a reason. But he finds nothing else to say
I find plenty to say to other people. It's just that this is all I apparently have to say to you. Posted by wordman (Member # 1307) on :
"Romanes eunt domus [People named Romanes, they go the house]," later corrected to "Romani ite domum [Romans go home]" in The Life of Brian.
The best Latin lesson ever, given by John Cleese.
[ July 14, 2005, 01:10 AM: Message edited by: wordman ]
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
quote: It's just that this is all I apparently have to say to you.
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