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08/03/2009 04:36:49 PM · #1 |
How about bringing a little gravitas to these challenges and having one where the titles are all in Latin (with perhaps English subtitles ) ?
I guess it's a quotes challenge in an older language :- )
Try this link for some helpful phrases - serious to begin with, silly towards the end . .
Latin Phrases |
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08/03/2009 04:39:31 PM · #2 |
Didn't see this one on the list
carpe per diem - Seize the money
;-)
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08/03/2009 04:39:58 PM · #3 |
Sic biscuitus disintegratum
That's the way the cookie crumbles.
Too funny! Good idea.
PS: We could use Latin in our comments as well:
non liquet (it is not clear) ;-)
Message edited by author 2009-08-03 16:44:47. |
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08/03/2009 05:33:31 PM · #4 |
Would "Lorem Ipsum" suffice? LOL!
On that page, click on that "Generate Lorem Ipsum" button.
I use this quite a bit when in the design phase of web pages, as well as when creating Word templates.
Message edited by author 2009-09-23 12:58:31.
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08/03/2009 08:22:18 PM · #5 |
Misere ursus, desinas ineptire, et quod vides perisse, perditum ducas.
Bonus points to the first reasonable translation of above.
R. |
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08/03/2009 08:24:12 PM · #6 |
Cogito ergo sum
One of my favorites
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08/03/2009 08:28:54 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Misere ursus, desinas ineptire, et quod vides perisse, perditum ducas.
Bonus points to the first reasonable translation of above.
R. |
"Pack it in, Mr. Bear, stop beating yourself up. It’s over – forget it."
How close did I get??
Message edited by author 2009-09-23 12:58:45.
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08/03/2009 08:30:21 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Carlo21:
Cogito ergo sum
One of my favorites |
"I think, therefore I am."
Message edited by author 2009-09-23 12:58:55.
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08/03/2009 08:36:20 PM · #9 |
I think it was my 9th grade english teacher that introduced that phrase. Stuck with me ever since.
Originally posted by AperturePriority:
Originally posted by Carlo21:
Cogito ergo sum
One of my favorites |
"I think, therefore I am." |
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08/03/2009 09:21:09 PM · #10 |
Caveat emptor!
Words to live by.......goes right before the phrase, "A fool and his money are soon parted."!
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08/03/2009 09:24:43 PM · #11 |
Non sum pisces.
I am not a fish.
Me transmitte sursum, caledoni.
Beam me up, Scotty.
Certe, toto, sentio nos in kansas non iam adesse.
You know, Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
Sit vis nobiscum.
May the force be with you.
Magnus frater spectat te...
Big Brother is watching you... |
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08/03/2009 10:28:09 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Carlo21:
Cogito ergo sum
One of my favorites |
Or as the Moody Blues put it, cogito ergo sum cogito,
I think, therefore I am, I think
Theodore Sturgeon adopted the US motto for one of his story collections, e pluribus unicorn |
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08/03/2009 10:48:06 PM · #13 |
| man, this would be a very interesting challenge. Seems like it could be very abstract. |
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08/03/2009 11:43:52 PM · #14 |
Ok, but how do you say, "Does not meet challenge", in Latin?
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08/04/2009 04:20:50 AM · #15 |
Originally posted by ambaker:
Ok, but how do you say, "Does not meet challenge", in Latin? |
non congruet provocationis :) |
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08/04/2009 05:56:48 AM · #16 |
omg i had four bloody years of latin in school, so i'm a bit traumatized...lol
and let's not forget: In vino veritas!
eta: oh and my alltime favorite quote because it's so true: homo homini lupus (Plautus)
Message edited by author 2009-08-04 06:02:29. |
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08/04/2009 06:22:51 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Misere ursus, desinas ineptire, et quod vides perisse, perditum ducas.
Bonus points to the first reasonable translation of above.
R. |
Sad Bear, stop playing the fool,
and let what you know leads you to ruin, end.
Catullus (84 BC-54 BC) Advice to Himself
Message edited by author 2009-08-04 06:23:54. |
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08/04/2009 09:54:57 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Misere ursus, desinas ineptire, et quod vides perisse, perditum ducas.
Bonus points to the first reasonable translation of above.
R. |
Originally posted by CEJ:
Sad Bear, stop playing the fool,
and let what you know leads you to ruin, end. |
Originally posted by AperturePriority:
Catullus (84 BC-54 BC) Advice to Himself
"Pack it in, Mr. Bear, stop beating yourself up. It’s over – forget it."
How close did I get?? |
You actually both are right in the ballpark. You know, I never realized it before but just googling "wretched Catullus" brings up a whole BUNCH of translations of this; it's just something has been in my head for decades, I studied Latin for 8 years (reluctantly)...
As far as translation goes, my own version would be:
"Wretched bear, stop feeling miserable, and recognize that what you have seen to perish, has perished indeed."
But that's not literal, but instead incorporates what I take to be the sense of Catullus' use of the word "ineptire", "folly"
; I think the folly he is referring to is the act of feeling sorry for oneself, of beating oneself up over what cannot be changed.
Anyway, good work guys :-)
R.
Message edited by author 2009-08-04 09:56:44. |
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08/04/2009 11:23:20 AM · #19 |
Quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur
Anything said in Latin sounds profound.
My fav has always been "Vita brevis" (life is short) which my dad told me since I was 3 and probably before that.
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08/04/2009 11:48:51 AM · #20 |
nunc est bibendum
Now is the time for drinking
which leads to this phrase:
nec mora nec requies
no sooner said than done |
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08/04/2009 11:57:40 AM · #21 |
Originally posted by Blue Moon:
Quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur
Anything said in Latin sounds profound.
My fav has always been "Vita brevis" (life is short) which my dad told me since I was 3 and probably before that. |
The full quote, from Hippocrates:
Ars longa,
vita brevis,
occasio praeceps,
experimentum periculosum,
iudicium difficile.
Tanslated:
Life is short,
art long,
opportunity fleeting,
experiment dangerous,
judgment difficult.
R.
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08/04/2009 02:50:59 PM · #22 |
particularly for dpc:
de gustibus non est disputandum
(there is no accounting for taste) |
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08/04/2009 03:01:16 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by skewsme:
particularly for dpc:
de gustibus non est disputandum
(there is no accounting for taste) |
Continuing in my pedantic, Latin-guy mode, this would be more accurately rendered as "There's no disputing taste." The point of the quote is that there's just no point arguing about taste, because there's no right or wrong where taste is concerned.
(Slinks back into woodwork now...)
R. |
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08/04/2009 03:06:31 PM · #24 |
Alas my little bit of everything language facility is sketchy; all my life I have preferred to make my own helplessly but deliberately inaccurate translations.
Here's for Bear:
--Silly bear, not good at drawing, and because what you see is fleeting you will lose all your money. |
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08/04/2009 03:11:46 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
snip -
Continuing in my pedantic, Latin-guy mode, (Slinks back into woodwork now...) snip
R. |
I think Bear might need to be tranquilised if this challenge comes about to get over his discomfort at the painful and dubious translations that will abound . .
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