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Title: How's Your Latin? ***ANSWER POSTED***
Post by: Kerry on December 05, 2007, 09:24:02 am: Imagine the Roman Empire has never fallen and we are still speaking Latin to this day.

Yes, Latin, but with all the modern expressions we know and use every day in the XXIst Century. Only difference is that they're in Latin.

Imagine "Verveces tui similes pro ientaculo mihi appositi sunt" is a modern-day, cutting Latin put-down.

What does it mean in that vulgar, barbarian tongue, English?

Pick from the choices above!
Title: Re: How's Your Latin?
Post by: Scott6373 on December 05, 2007, 09:29:54 am: Finally...a quiz on this place I can actually do. # 5
Title: Re: How's Your Latin?
Post by: injest on December 05, 2007, 09:31:47 am: I say the jerks like you for breakfast
Title: Re: How's Your Latin?
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on December 05, 2007, 09:39:35 am: I dont have a freakin clue. Thats what I pay Kelseys school bills for.... :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: How's Your Latin?
Post by: Dagi on December 06, 2007, 05:22:54 am: I said I have jerks like you for breakfast...although I´m pretty sure I never learned the word for jerks in latin. ::)
Title: Re: How's Your Latin?
Post by: Kerry on December 06, 2007, 08:45:53 am: Quote from: ifyoucantfixit on December 05, 2007, 09:39:35 am

I dont have a freakin clue. Thats what I pay Kelseys school bills for.... :laugh: :laugh:

Pssssst (Kerry whispering conspiratorially to Janice), try googling "ientaculo," Janice! ;) ;) ;) :D
Title: Re: How's Your Latin?
Post by: Kerry on December 06, 2007, 08:52:27 am: Quote from: Dagi on December 06, 2007, 05:22:54 am
I said I have jerks like you for breakfast...although I´m pretty sure I never learned the word for jerks in latin. ::)

Me neither, Dagi! ;) :D
Title: Re: How's Your Latin?
Post by: Shasta542 on December 06, 2007, 09:28:38 pm: I think that I knew one Latin word in the phrase and I picked the English one with that word in it. :P
Title: Re: How's Your Latin?
Post by: Kerry on December 09, 2007, 07:36:16 am: And the answer is . . . . . .

"I have jerks like you for breakfast" :o

Thank you to everyone who entered! :D

And for those of you who may like to impress your friends with your Latin prowess, or perhaps just insult the socks off them, without them even knowing what you said, here are the other translations:

You're dead meat.
Caro putrida es.

You'll never work in this town again.
In hoc oppido nunquam postea operaberis.

You can run, but you can't hide.
Potes currere, sed te occulere non potes.

Guys like you are a dime a dozen.
Capita similia tui aestimantur unius assis.

Read it and weep.
Lege et lacrima.

Don't make me laugh.
Ne feceris ut rideam.

I'm shaking, I'm shaking.
Pavesco, pavesco.

With grateful thanks to Henricus Barbatus (Henry Beard) for his wonderful book "Lingua Latina Multo Pluribus Occasionibus" ("Latin for even more Occasions")
Title: Re: How's Your Latin? ***ANSWER POSTED***
Post by: Dagi on December 10, 2007, 05:40:45 pm: Thanks for the fun, Kerry! ;D
Title: Re: How's Your Latin? ***ANSWER POSTED***
Post by: Kerry on December 11, 2007, 06:56:43 am: Quote from: Dagi on December 10, 2007, 05:40:45 pm
Thanks for the fun, Kerry! ;D

Glad you enjoyed it, Dagi. :D

I think modern-day expressions such as "Beam me up, Scotty!" are hilarious when translated into Latin . . .

"Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!" :laugh:
Title: Re: How's Your Latin? ***ANSWER POSTED***
Post by: Dagi on December 11, 2007, 08:35:50 am: :laugh: More, please!
Title: Re: How's Your Latin? ***ANSWER POSTED***
Post by: Kerry on December 12, 2007, 05:34:57 pm: Quote from: Dagi on December 11, 2007, 08:35:50 am
:laugh: More, please!

I posted more over at Kerry's Komedy Klub, Dagi. They're movie star quotes such as "Come up and see me some time" and "What a dump." Will post more there shortly. :D
Title: Re: How's Your Latin? ***ANSWER POSTED***
Post by: David In Indy on December 12, 2007, 05:52:57 pm: Kerry, you are cute! You always think up these fun games and quizzes for us! :)

Does it mean, "you can run but you can't hide"? I really have no idea what it means! :D
Title: Re: How's Your Latin? ***ANSWER POSTED***
Post by: Dagi on December 13, 2007, 04:49:47 am: David, dear, the answer is already posted. ::) :laugh: It means "I have jerks like you for breakfast." I guess you are just stressed out because of your trip? Or are you always so confused? ;D
Title: Re: How's Your Latin? ***ANSWER POSTED***
Post by: Kerry on December 13, 2007, 08:08:54 am: Quote from: David on December 12, 2007, 05:52:57 pm
Kerry, you are cute! You always think up these fun games and quizzes for us! :)

Does it mean, "you can run but you can't hide"? I really have no idea what it means! :D

Haha, I suspect you may have other things on you might right now, David! (Romantic weekend in Las Vegas with Alex) ;) :D

[[[David]]]