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[Weisy]

OK. So we're not getting any new members who are latin students. So, in a bid to make Latin more accessible to the general public, here are some ready-made Latin phrases for use in real life.

Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas.
Thankyou for not smoking.

Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum!
Don't you dare erase my hard disk!

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I shall fling an enormous rock at your head.

Amicule, delicae, num is sum qui mentiar tibi?
Baby, sweetheart, would I lie to you?

Hoc non manus sed pes est.
This isn't a hand, it's a foot.

Fautores ludi glacialis borei feri meri sunt.
Hockey fans are real animals.

In thermulas intremus!
Let's get into the hot tub!

Sentio aliquos to togatos contra me conspirare.
I think some people in togas are plotting against me.

Licetne tibi mihi dare tuam subscriptionem?
Can I have your autograph?

Machina improba! Vel mihi ede potum vel mihi redde nummos meos!
You infernal machine! Give me a beverage or give me back my money!

Nevtiquam erro.
I am NOT LOST!!

Arbitror eam de planeta alia venisse.
I think she's from another planet.


Latin does have relevance to life and existence. Latin IS life and existence...

*swings crystal back and forth...*

 

[flyin']

see ... latin isnt so hard after all ... now you can walk around the streets and speak latin to a passer-by (ignore the fact that they wont have the slightest clue what your uttering, or that they will think you are insane) ... just tell them that you are speaking the language of tommorrow (or was that yesterday) ... either way ... the latin revival is here ...

 

[flyin']

ive posted an announcement ... now weisy has a few thread ... and no one has come ... come one ... latin students ... join the forum ...

 

[utopian731]

wei, you need to get out more

 

[professor]

Esto Fidelis

 

[Weisy]

Originally posted by utopian731
wei, you need to get out more

it's flyin'...he's screwing with my head with all this virtual posting stuff....*arrgh.

 

[flyin']

Originally posted by Weisy


it's flyin'...he's screwing with my head with all this virtual posting stuff....*arrgh.

blame the little bird why dont we ...

Originally posted by professor

Esto Fidelis

where have our latin translators gone when you need them ... wait a minute, im suppose to be able to translate this ... *thinks* ... *and fails to remember (too lazy to search latin dictionary)* ...

 

[professor]

its my school motto, meaning something like 'be faithful'...and i know this marist song written in latin...but apart from all that, i know nothing about latin language

 

[flyin']

Originally posted by professor
its my school motto, meaning something like 'be faithful'...and i know this marist song written in latin...but apart from all that, i know nothing about latin language

the translation look right ... it doesnt matter whether you know any latin ...

but we are trying to attract latin students from the class of 2003 ...

btw. latin is by far the most popular lote language in the forum ... latin has achieved forum dominations ...

 

[professor]

yes, indeed Latin is by far the most popular language...but where are the chinese?? they should be dominating the forum!!

Pork Guy...

 

[flyin']

Originally posted by professor
yes, indeed Latin is by far the most popular language...but where are the chinese?? they should be dominating the forum!!

neh ... not many people do hsc chinese ... i remember doing chinese in those saturday schools ... i got worse and worse and started to fail ... so i left ...

Originally posted by professor
Pork Guy...

lol ... be careful ... swearing is strictly prohibited ... even in chinese because im the latin moderator ... ... but thats the first time ive seen someone use it in the forum ... i was reading thinking wtf and then it was like ahhh ... i see ...

 

[professor]

lol, i'll stop using it then...

but HSC isn't as hard as i first thought coz i read the past papers and it wasn't hard, or maybe because i was under chinese education since i was born...but then again, my dad said HSC chinese is hard(he said he also read the past papers) and his chinses is way better than me...so

 

[flyin']

use it in other forums, its fine ... just not in the latin forum ...

chinese is definitely very difficult and after years of narrowly passing, ive taken a three year break ... maybe ill have a go at it soon ...

anyway ... where have all my fellow latin students gone ...

 

[professor]

for many ppl chinese indeed is getting harder, i dropped out and i came to australia so i don't really know how things are progress in relation to english, but by reading poems, chinese is WAY HARDER than english...only in poems, others, i dun know yet

 

[flyin']

i reckon the hardest thing about chinese is writing the characters ... english has 26 letters ... chinese has several hundred commonly used characters and many more thousands of characters ... but i guess if you learn it, like people learn english in australia, it would be pretty easy ...

 

[professor]

and u can't pronunce the word...and there are different combinations of each word as well, like big, link with school means university but with big linking to the word sea, it means ocean...

 

[flyin']

but i guess the pronounciation of mandarin is like english ... cantonese pronounciation is difficult to learn unless its your native tongue ...

i guess the characters are being simplified ... so thats a start ... but some of the simplification just looks terrible ...

 

[professor]

i have so much trouble talking mandarin in the beginning and some now coz u use ur tongue more in mando than canto (should be) coz i practice the word 'hot' for like 2 months and still sound like an idiot...

 

[flyin']

i cant speak mando ... but im learning so ... it'll come along eventually ... i can say all the usual stuff like:
* i dont understand what your saying ...
* hello ...
* goodbye ...
* what's your name ...
and a few others which i wont mention ...

 

[professor]

oh yes, i know how to say all of them after long hrs of practice and humiliations from friends...mm..mando swearing, never investigate that area of study b4...mm...