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latin for all occasions - Jeroen Pelgrom - 08-14-2003 This is a fun one:<br> <br> quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur<br> Anything said in Latin sounds profound.<br> <br> Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.<br> A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.<br> <br> Imus ad magum Ozi videndum, magum Ozi mirum mirissimum.<br> We are going to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz.<br> <br> Noster populus facit discrepantiam.<br> Our people make the difference.<br> <br> Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum.<br> Only you are can prevent forest fires.<br> <br> Fac ut gaudeam.<br> Make my day.<br> <br> Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua.<br> The only good language is a dead language.<br> <br> Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit.<br> To boldly go where no man has gone before.<br> <br> Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis.<br> You do not know the power of the dark side.<br> <br> Sit vis nobiscum.<br> May the force be with you.<br> <br> Tauri in decurso<br> Bulls on parade<br> <br> Quaeso esto meus vicinus.<br> Please won't you be my neighbor.<br> <br> Clamo, clamatis, omnes clamamus pro glace lactis.<br> I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.<br> <br> Magnus frater spectat te...<br> Big Brother is watching you....<br> <br> Monstra mihi pecuniam!<br> Show me the money!<br> <br> Habetis bona deum.<br> Have a nice day.<br> <br> Die dulci fruere.<br> Have a nice day.<br> <br> Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi.<br> Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog.<br> <br> Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!<br> If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, high-paying world of Latin!<br> <br> Sona si Latine loqueris.<br> Honk if you speak Latin.<br> <br> Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum!<br> Don't you dare erase my hard disk!<br> <br> Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.<br> I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.<br> <br> Gramen artificiosum odi.<br> I hate Astroturf.<br> <br> Furnulum pani nolo.<br> I don't want a toaster.<br> <br> Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.<br> I think some people in togas are plotting against me.<br> <br> Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.<br> I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.<br> <br> Noli me vocare, ego te vocabo.<br> Don't call me, I'll call you.<br> <br> Cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules.<br> If I were you, I wouldn't walk in front of any catapults.<br> <br> Canis meus id comedit.<br> My dog ate it.<br> <br> Illiud Latine dici non potest.<br> You can't say that in Latin.<br> <br> Vidistine nuper imagines moventes bonas?<br> Seen any good movies lately?<br> <br> Nullo metro compositum est.<br> It doesn't rhyme.<br> <br> Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.<br> I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't a poem.<br> <br> Braccae illae virides cum subucula rosea et tunica Caledonia-quam elenganter concinnatur!<br> Those green pants go so well with that pink shirt and the plaid jacket!<br> <br> Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio.<br> Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway.<br> <br> Re vera, potas bene.<br> Say, you sure are drinking a lot.<br> <br> Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!<br> May barbarians invade your personal space!<br> <br> Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant!<br> May conspirators assassinate you in the mall!<br> <br> Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!<br> May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!<br> <br> Radix lecti<br> Couch potato<br> <br> Quo signo nata es?<br> What's your sign?<br> <br> Romani quidem artem amatoriam invenerunt.<br> You know, the Romans invented the art of love.<br> <br> Spero nos familiares mansuros.<br> I hope we'll still be friends.<br> <br> Mellita, domi adsum.<br> Honey, I'm home.<br> <br> Tam exanimis quam tunica nehru fio.<br> I am as dead as the nehru jacket.<br> <br> Ventis secundis, tene cursum.<br> Go with the flow.<br> <br> Totum dependeat.<br> Let it all hang out.<br> <br> Te precor dulcissime supplex!<br> Pretty please with a cherry on top!<br> <br> Magister Mundi sum!<br> I am the Master of the Universe!<br> <br> Fac me cocleario vomere!<br> Gag me with a spoon!<br> <br> Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.<br> I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.<br> <br> Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?<br> Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?<br> <br> Prehende uxorem meam, sis!<br> Take my wife, please!<br> <br> Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?<br> How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?<br> <br> Nihil est--in vita priore ego imperator Romanus fui.<br> That's nothing--in a previous life I was a Roman Emperor.<br> <br> Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est.<br> Yes, that is a very large amount of corn.<br> <br> Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!<br> Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business.<br> <br> Oblitus sum perpolire clepsydras!<br> I forgot to polish the clocks!<br> <br> Sic faciunt omnes.<br> Everyone is doing it.<br> <br> Vacca foeda<br> Stupid cow<br> <br> Fac ut vivas.<br> Get a life.<br> <br> Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus!<br> Let's all wear mood rings!<br> <br> Insula Gilliganis<br> Gilligan's Island<br> <br> Vescere bracis meis.<br> Eat my shorts<br> <br> Lege atque lacrima.<br> Read 'em and weep<br> <br> Stultus est sicut stultus facit.<br> Stupid is as stupid does.<br> <br> Cum catapultae proscriptae erat, tum soli proscript catapultas habeunt.<br> If catapaults are outlawed, then only outlaws will only have catapaults.<br> <br> Raptus regaliter.<br> Royally screwed.<br> <br> Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.<br> It's not the heat, it's the humidity.<br> <br> Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!<br> God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!<br> <br> Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.<br> The designated hitter rule has got to go.<br> <br> Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.<br> If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar.<br> <br> (At a barbeque)<br> Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?<br> Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?<br> <br> Viri sunt Viri.<br> Men are slime.<br> <br> Id est mihi, id non est tibi!<br> It is mine, not yours!<br> <br> Tempus incognitum.<br> Time unknown.<br> <br> Labera lege...<br> Read my lips...<br> <br> Credo Elvem etiam vivere.<br> I believe Elvis lives.<br> <br> Si hoc legere scis, nimium eruditionis habes.<br> If you can read this, you have too much education.<br> <br> Si tu id aeficas, ei venient. Ager Somnia<br> If you build it, they will come. Field of Dreams<br> <br> Cogito, ergo sum.<br> I think, therefore I am.<br> <br> Sum, ergo edo.<br> I am, therefore I eat.<br> <br> Cogito, ergo doleo.<br> I think, therefore I am depressed.<br> <br> Cogito sumere potum alterum.<br> I think I’ll have another drink.<br> <br> Noli nothis permittere te terere.<br> Don’t let the bastards get you down.<br> <br> Duc, sequere, aut de via decede.<br> Lead, follow, or get out of the way.<br> <br> Paucis verbis, quid est deconstructionismus?<br> What, in a nutshell, is deconstructionism?<br> <br> Qualem muleirculam!<br> What a bimbo!<br> <br> Qualem blennum!<br> What a doofus!<br> <br> Lagunculae leydianae non accedunt.<br> Batteries not included.<br> <br> Hoc nomen meum verum non est.<br> This isn’t my real name.<br> <br> Revera linguam latinam vix cognovi.<br> I don’t really know all that much Latin.<br> <br> Ubi est mea anaticula cumminosa?<br> Where’s my rubber ducky?<br> <br> Volo anaticulam cumminosam meam!<br> I want my rubber ducky!<br> <br> Wal*mart. Semper.<br> Wal*mart. Always.<br> <br> <p></p><i></i> Re: latin for all occasions - Anonymous - 08-16-2003 well done. thanx <p></p><i></i> Re: latin for all occasions - Frank Miranda - 08-16-2003 Here are more from Beard's second book:<br> <br> For you Valley Girl fans:<br> Omnino mirabile fuit- volo dicere, vere probe radicitus!<br> It was totally awesome- I mean, really copious rad!<br> <br> For baseball fans:<br> Nihil tundit, nihil tundit, nihil tundit!<br> No batter, no batter, no batter!<br> <br> For you rich folks:<br> In curro meo ob Officina Baiuoaria Mechanica fabricato habeo machinam quae litteras per aethera transmittit.<br> I have a fax machine in my BMW.<br> <br> For you Latin-speakers:<br> Non enim possum facere quin Latine loquar.<br> You know, I just can't help speaking Latin.<br> <p></p><i></i> |