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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:03 AM
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Speak to me in Latin
I love the sound of it. It sounds…geeky. I love the sound of geeky in the morning. :D
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:07 AM
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1. Owhay aboutway away everagebay?
Latin, right?
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:10 AM
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3. Oink, oink , corpus delecti!
squeal, oink, ore tenus!

(pig latin)
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:09 AM
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2. Carpe diem.
nt
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:10 AM
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4. Amor vincit omnia
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:10 AM
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5. sum latinus geekus
Edited on Sun Feb-06-05 12:11 AM by realisticphish
Shrubus est simius, et est stupidus maximus

its been 2 years, thats the best i can do without using a dictionary:)


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat
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RadicalMom Donating Member (734 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 07:56 AM
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34. Stop! Now my husband's mad at me for laughing while he's trying to watch
Cuntileasa.
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:11 AM
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6. Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate
:D
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:11 AM
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7. O nata lux de lumine
Edited on Sun Feb-06-05 12:15 AM by Lydia Leftcoast
Laetentur caeli

Rorate coeli de super et nubes pluant justi

Cantate domino canticum novum in psalterio et tympano

Justorum animae in manu Dei sunt

and other random lines from choir anthems I've sung in the past year. :-)
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:18 AM
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8. You like Startrek?
Ire fortiter quo nemo ante iit
To boldly go where no man has gone before.

Or Magnus Frater spectat te
Big Brother is watching you.

Or even Credo Elvem ipsum etaim vivere
I think Elvis is still alive.
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:20 AM
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10. Credo Elvem ipsum etaim vivere
Too cool! And yes, Elvis *IS* still alive!
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:21 AM
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12. Of course there's always
Edited on Sun Feb-06-05 12:23 AM by Maple
Futue te et ipsum caballum
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

Or if you'd prefer being nice, Habetis bona deum
Have a nice day. :D
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:19 AM
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9. Apparently, I forgot to say–translate it for me, too!
You're all speaking greek to me. (Pardon the pun.)
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:21 AM
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11. I can say the entire Pledge of Allegiance in Latin
Had to learn it for a competition in high school (yep, I took Latin). Not sure that I could spell that whole thing out though...but here's part of it.

Cum libertatae, iustitiaquae, omnibus. (With liberty and justice for all)
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:23 AM
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13. EGO amo magnus butts quod EGO can non recubo
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:25 AM
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14. nuntii latini (the news in Latin)
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:26 AM
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15. Just thought of something my Latin teacher stuck in our heads
Semper ubi sub ubi ( direct it's "always where under where")

She said she always got ubi (where) and ibi (there) confused, so she made this up so she'd remember.

She also put the declension endings to silly songs for us...I still remember them too!
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6000eliot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:33 AM
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16. Cogito ergo sum
"I think therefore I am."
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 01:45 AM
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22. Cogito ergo spud
I think therefore I yam.
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6000eliot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 12:23 AM
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51. You can't know how much I love bad puns.
Thanks!
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:38 AM
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17. Exaudi orationem meam,
Domine,
et depreciationem meam:
auribus percipe lacrymas meas.
Ne sileas. Quoniam advena sum apud te,
et peregrinus,
sicut omnes patres mei.
14 Remitte mihi, ut refrigere
priusquam abeam, et amplius non ero.
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 01:03 AM
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18. Caveat emptor!
Particularly applicable for consumers of social security.
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msgadget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 01:18 AM
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19. Veni, vidi, vici
I came, I saw, I conquered.

The only words I remember from high school Latin.
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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:27 AM
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37. Veni, vedi, murus fuit viscosus.
I'll leave that untranslated.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 01:43 AM
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20. " Fiat justinia, ruat coelum"
"Let justice be done, though heaven falls"
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 01:44 AM
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21. Veni, Vidi, Velcro
Edited on Sun Feb-06-05 01:46 AM by Az
I came, I saw, I stuck around.
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 05:32 AM
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30. or Vini, Vidi, Visa
Edited on Sun Feb-06-05 05:32 AM by Dookus
I came, I saw, I shopped.
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American Tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 01:46 AM
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23. sic semper tyrannis!
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 02:00 AM
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24. Romanes eunt domus!
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 02:02 AM
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25. Fithos lusec wecos vinosec...
Fithos lusec wecos vinosec
Fithos lusec wecos vinosec
Fithos lusec wecos vinosec

Excitate vos e somno, liberi mei
Cunae sunt non
Excitate vos e somno, liberi fatali
Somnus est non

Wake from your sleep, my children
You're childhood years are gone
Wake from your sleep, my children
Your rest is gone


Surgite
Inventite
Veni hortum veritatis
Horti verna veritatis

Arise
Search
Go to the true garden
The garden of spring's truth


Ardente veritate
Urite mala mundi
Ardente veritate
Incendite tenebras mundi

With ardent truth
Burn the evils of the world
With ardent truth
Light the darkness of the world


Valete, liberi
Diebus fatalibus

Farewell, children
The day has died.


Fithos lusec wecos vinosec
Fithos lusec wecos vinosec
Fithos lusec wecos vinosec
Fithos lusec wecos vinosec
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Spacemom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 02:04 AM
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26. I'm sorry, I wish I could help you out
Except I had latin first period in high school.

Seeing as how I usually toked up before school, I don't remember too much of it. :smoke:

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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 02:49 AM
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27. Hic dies festus atras, Caesare tenente imperium
Hic Caesar, Georgius Secundus, sine intelligentia et sine veritate, non dux mihi est. Non tenente imperium meum!
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 04:51 AM
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28. et tu, hardhead?
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Lexingtonian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 04:57 AM
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29. illegitimis non carborundum.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

(Actually, it's fake Latin invented during WW2 in Britain by some fellows from chic boarding schools.)
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Lexingtonian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 07:32 AM
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31. And the most classic: Ama et fac quod vis.
Edited on Sun Feb-06-05 07:33 AM by Lexingtonian
Love and f-ck anything you see. Or is it Love and screw anyone who wants to...?

No, wait...it's 'Love, and do what you wish'. Or is that: do who like....

Okay, okay. It's by St. Augustine of Hippo. Yeah, the famous, and as a youth highly oversexed sinner who become the greatest Christian theological source for a thousand years.

It's 'love and do according to your desire', and it's actually wonderful advice to people who are good by habit and intention. Still, a lot of ruthless people have much enjoyed reading Augustine's maxim in the way they preferred.

:D

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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 07:41 AM
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32. Hi nuces.
(pron: "hee noo-kays")...that's the Latin for "deez nuts", which you'll recognise if you're familiar with the ouevre of one Mr Calvin Broadus (aka Snoop Dogg).
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RadicalMom Donating Member (734 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 07:50 AM
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33. Eno Gib A Tae!
Now read it backwards. It's my favorite latin phrase.
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Mass_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:07 AM
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35. ok...
Nunc sum puer iratus.
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Cadfael Donating Member (570 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:13 AM
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36. En vino veritas
In wine there is truth
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 11:12 AM
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38. I once knew a guy who only spoke Latin to his children.
I still don't know if that was an amazing idea or an unbelievably cruel one.

I'd love to go back and see how those kids turned out.

Oh, here:

in flagrante delicto
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 11:27 AM
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39. In regione caecorum rex est lucus (n/t)
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gizmo1979 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 11:38 AM
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40. Cogito ergo sum.
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 03:25 PM
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45. The most succinct phrase in any language.
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 11:40 AM
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41. In Vino Veritas.
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Crandor Donating Member (320 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 11:48 AM
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42. Quod valedico vestrum animus
I dunno what it means, but it sounds cool :)
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Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 01:34 PM
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43. "Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus
Ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit.
Litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto
Vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram..."

:hi:

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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 01:59 PM
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44. how about a little Marcus Valerius Martialis?
II.89

quod nimio gaudes noctem producere uino
ignosco: uitium, Gaure, Catonis habes.
carmina quod scribis Musis et Apolline nullo
laudari debes: hoc Ciceronis habes.
quod uomis, Antoni; quod luxuriaris, Apici.
quod fellas, uitium dic mihi cuius habes?

(which cannot be translated without incurring the wrath of the moderators...)

And the ever popular...

II.87:

dicis amore tui bellas ardere puellas,
qui faciem sub aqua, Sexte, natantis habes.

(which can be translated without incurring the wrath of the moderators...)

You say that the pretty girls are burning with love for you - you, Sextus, who have the face of a man swimming under water!
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 03:53 PM
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46. I'm sure that you've been very naughty (as we all have):
Deinde ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis, in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.
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Ezlivin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 04:00 PM
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47. Vox populi, vox dei
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
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TroubleMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 04:06 PM
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48. "It's a joke name sir - like Biggus Dickus"

"I happen to have a very good friend in Rome named Biggus Dickus."
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patdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 04:14 PM
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49. Gavisus Novus Annus
Or Happy New Year!...Here is a English to Latin/Latin to English Dictionary you can have fun with: http://www.freedict.com/onldict/lat.html
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 04:19 PM
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50. Quid quid Latine dictur sit altum viditur
:hi:
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 12:27 AM
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52. Genio populi romani
vedi veni vici
e pluribus unum
caveat emptor
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