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monster 01-27-2009 05:00 PM

Handy Latin Phrases
 
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.ed...ndy-latin.html

Fac ut gaudeam.
Make my day.

Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!

Fac me cocleario vomere!
Gag me with a spoon!

the site, however, lacks the translations for:
I will buttfuck you in the mouth
it's a shark
cock!
you bastard, she died on 9/11.

somethingfor the egghead dwellars to work on :D

footfootfoot 01-27-2009 05:56 PM

It's a shark is probably something like:
Tibor est.

Griff 01-27-2009 07:36 PM

Vos bastard , is died in September undecim.

wolf 01-28-2009 12:54 AM

Illegitimi non carborundum.

You're really just trying to make us look over-educated, aren't you?

xoxoxoBruce 01-28-2009 12:58 AM

There is no such thing as a handy Latin phrase. It's poor communication skills to insult someone that doesn't know they're being insulted.

wolf 01-28-2009 12:59 AM

vos nothus, mea puella undecimus September demortuus.

Sundae 01-28-2009 08:49 AM

I had a latin phrase book that had things like that in.
It really cracked me up.

There was one for the photocopier being broken, which I put on our photocopier/ printer/ folder of huge sheets of computer paper when it died - usually every Friday when people were trying to get merchandising packs out in the post.

Okay, I was 19... and I did have it on there in English too.
One of our Directors saw it while at the drinks machine (next to it) and that was one of the reasons I was completely spoiled by top management in that job. Didn't help my career, but I got to do an awful lot of fun stuff around it.

When I left, I made a sign for my favourite IT bloke (handmade and very smart I have to say) with purgamentum init, exit purgamentum on it. Very appropriate for the system of recording data we had - if I do say so myself.

Crimson Ghost 01-29-2009 02:11 AM

Not exactly handy, but these are some of the ones I like -

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"Vi veri veniversum vivus vici" - "By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe" - V For Vendetta
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"fiat lux" - "let light be made", or, more commonly - "let there be light" - Often seen on Masonic Lodge seals
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"in hoc signo vinces" - "by this sign conquer"

"Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed nomine Tuo da gloriam" - "Not unto us, Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory." - Both of these phrases are seen on some modern Knight Templar banners
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"memento mori" - "remember that you will die"
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"Sit vis vobiscum." - "May the Force be with you."
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"Veni, Vidi, volo in domum redire." - "I came, I saw, I want to go home."
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"sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc" - "we gladly feast on those who would subdue us" - family motto
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"te audire no possum, musa sapienum fixa est in aura" - "I'm sorry, i can't hear you, i have a banana stuck in my ear"
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Semper Fidelis - a way of life
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Beestie 01-29-2009 02:21 AM

"I can play dominos better than youuuuuuu cannnnnnn"

I have no idea what it means but I used to hear the priest sing it during mass every Sunday when I was growing up.

Sundae 01-29-2009 06:10 AM

Oh I forgot the Addams family motto!
I love that.

Clodfobble 01-29-2009 11:45 AM

My high school theatre troupe's motto was Excellencia consuetudo est, or "excellence is habit." Pretty sure I'm misspelling the second word though.

Beest 01-29-2009 11:59 AM

Romanes Eunt Domus :headshake

Years ago one of the posters on a paintball board had a long latin phrase in his sig. Eventually I googled it and PM'd him on the humorous translation, he said it had been there for years, but I was the first one to pick up on it.

magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.

sir john 01-30-2009 12:10 PM

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/k...oto/seal-1.gif

sweet merciful fuck pterodactyls

only becomes useful after you know it, then you will be surprised how often it can be applied.

wolf 01-30-2009 02:01 PM

Sir John, your erudition is much welcomed here.

Thank you, also, for sharing your familial crest and motto.


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