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iamnotaparakeet
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Since the foreign language forum is dead, I thought I'd try here. My latest fixation is Latin which I've just started to study. I've already done a year's worth of Spanish, so it is not to unfamiliar to me as Spanish is derived from Latin. So to begin:
Salvete amici lingua latinae! Quid agitis?
(Greetings friends of Latin! How are you all?)
Ego non psittacum sum, sed amici mei psittacos sunt
(I am not a parrot, but my friends are parrots.)
Post quips or phrases you've made or discuss any Latin related thing here.
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Si vis pacem parabellum. If you want peace,prepare for war.
That's probably 50% of my Latin right there Iamnotaparakeet.  I like the one you posted for Anzac Day. |
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CityAsylum
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Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades
(If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated and much too close )
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iamnotaparakeet
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| velodog wrote: | Si vis pacem parabellum. If you want peace,prepare for war.
That's probably 50% of my Latin right there Iamnotaparakeet. I like the one you posted for Anzac Day. |
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| CityAsylum wrote: | Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades
(If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated and much too close ) |
 I had trouble to keep from laughing; you almost caused me to wake up my parents. 
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Si non confectus, non reficiat. (If it ain't broke, don't fix it.)
At some point I think I translated Humpty Dumpty into Latin, but all I can remember of it is:
Omnes regis equi omnesque virorum
Invenire non poterat omnes fragmentorum.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty back together again.
But, I wanted to give it a nursury-rhyme rhythm, so it literally says:
All the king's horses and all of the men
Couldn't find all of the pieces.
which is what I always thought it meant, anyway. You have to stress the first Omnes on the wrong (second) syllable, but otherwise it works. |
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supahneko
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Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris
I Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar |
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iamnotaparakeet
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| supahneko wrote: | Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris
I Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar |
Liberate me ex navis! Non servus remi sum!
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| iamnotaparakeet wrote: | | supahneko wrote: | Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris
I Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar |
Liberate me ex navis! Non servus remi sum! |
Liberate me out boat, swim away from boat?
Non erravi perniciose! |
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iamnotaparakeet
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 8:55 am Post subject: |
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| supahneko wrote: | | iamnotaparakeet wrote: | | supahneko wrote: | Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris
I Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar |
Liberate me ex navis! Non servus remi sum! |
Liberate me out boat, swim away from boat?
Non erravi perniciose! |
Mea culpa. Debebat, "liberate me ex navi!" using the dative, right?
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| Are you using a mix of Spanish? Because I just can't understand some of the words. |
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iamnotaparakeet
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| supahneko wrote: | | Are you using a mix of Spanish? Because I just can't understand some of the words. |
No, "mea culpa" and "Liberate me ex navi! Non servus remi sum!" are Latin. Means, "my fault" and "let me out of this ship! I'm not a oar-slave!" Do you remember that the Romans used slaves to power the oars on their triremes?
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Volo ut syntaxix mea splendescat in litore, veniente aestate.
(I want to get my syntax into shape for the beach this summer)
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| iamnotaparakeet wrote: | | supahneko wrote: | | Are you using a mix of Spanish? Because I just can't understand some of the words. |
No, "mea culpa" and "Liberate me ex navi! Non servus remi sum!" are Latin. Means, "my fault" and "let me out of this ship! I'm not a oar-slave!" Do you remember that the Romans used slaves to power the oars on their triremes? |
No I didn't  |
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| supahneko wrote: | | iamnotaparakeet wrote: | | supahneko wrote: | | Are you using a mix of Spanish? Because I just can't understand some of the words. |
No, "mea culpa" and "Liberate me ex navi! Non servus remi sum!" are Latin. Means, "my fault" and "let me out of this ship! I'm not a oar-slave!" Do you remember that the Romans used slaves to power the oars on their triremes? |
No I didn't |
They are really cool ships, triremes were one of my fixations at one time.
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