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[violachic]

Even though I know a fair amount of Church Latin from singing in choirs over the years, I never actually studied the language. However, that doesn't keep me from finding quotes from Latin for All Occasions ridiculously funny.

Some highlights:


My dog ate it.
Canis meus id comedit.

In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags.
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.

Save the whales
Balaenae nobis conservandae sunt

It's not the heat, it's the humidity.
Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.

I have nothing to declare.
Nihil declaro.

It was that way when I got here.
Ita erat quando hic adveni.

The designated hitter rule has got to go.
Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.

and my absolute favorites:

I've got to see a man about a dog.
Cum homine de cane debeo congredi

When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt



Oh, and don't miss the list of the Seven Dwarves.

Comments

[dust-wind-dude.livejournal.com]

Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.


No. It stays. Otherwise, you just have one big national league and we can't have that.

Not really Latin

[pheret1.livejournal.com]

Semper ubi sub ubi.

Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est?

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

*snerk* SO bookmarking this, it's probably best for your sanity not to ask me why... :)

[aimee-darling.livejournal.com]

I don't know if the grammar is correct, but my parents got a latin dictionary, and swear:

Gravis Ferrum Eternum
Heavy metal forever

I have strange parents.