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Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat. It's not the heat, it's the humidity. Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit! God, look at the time! My wife will kill me! Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre? Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me? Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt. When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults. Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est. The designated hitter rule has got to go. Sona si latine loqueris. Honk if you speak Latin. Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure. I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear. Vacca Foeda! Stupid Cow! Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert. Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn. Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare. I think some people in togas are plotting against me. Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem. In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags. Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris. If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar. Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult. Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem. Stand aside, little people! I'm here on official business. (At a poetry reading) Nullo metro compositum est. It doesn't rhyme. Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema. I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't a poem. Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum. A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants. Tuis pugis pignore! You bet your bippy! Quomodo cogis comas tuas sic videri? How do you get your hair to do that? Feles mala! Cur cista non uteris? Stramentum novum in ea posui. Bad kitty! Why don't you use the cat box? I put new litter in it. Romani quidem artem amatoriam invenerunt. You know, the Romans invented the art of love. Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est. Yes, that is a very large amount of corn. (At a barbeque) Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri? Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face? Neutiquam erro. I am not lost. Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum. Only you are can prevent forest fires. Ita erat quando hic adveni. It was that way when I got here. Sic hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades. If you can read this bumper sticker, you are very well educated and much too close. Hocine bibo aut in eum digitos insero? Do I drink this or stick my fingers in it? You can't say that in Latin. Illiud Latine dici non potest. Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur. Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out. | |
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Interesting Notes and History:
The original version of this list was compiled in the late 1980's. It was shared and augmented by friends and fellow UseNet news readers, primarily on rec.humor. (Even then, it was inevitablely cross-posted everywhere else.) In the very early 1990's the list migrated to Gopher, an early, but popular, text-based hypertext web scheme. At about the same time, a guy by the name of Beard published a book that contained many of these phrases verbatim. While copyrighted, it's clear that portions of his text were culled from these public sources. In 1993, this list was first published on the World Wide Web right here at www.zippynet.com (The BSmith Connection). The only browser at the time was "Mosaic", but the Handy Latin Phrases page was still a popular link. Over the last decade, the list has matured well and experienced the gamut of internet life. Its HTML coding first sported the new and technically advanced Netscape tags, later of course switching to Internet Exploder for wider compatibility with the masses. The list has been copied by fans and hacked up in numerous interesting ways. And in the true spirit of the modern internet, like many of it's imitators, the list was even warned of copyright infringement regarding Beard's multi-sourced book. They "could not help but notice a certain glaring similarity to Henry Beard's 'Latin For All Occasions'. This book is copyrighted, and therefore required that you acknowledge the source of the phrases on your page." Well, Duhh! Where do you think he got them? No matter. Above all else, the response from our readers has been incredible! We've received countless comments and an endless stream of translation requests. Each year the requests seem to double, and we struggle as best we can to keep up. Regardless, keep 'em coming. We're just people helping people. (Someone probably went and trademarked that, too.) BSmith - In Vino Veritas - |
