Fwd: Slightly Less Common Latin Phrases

[dennis grace]

Greetings, Cosyns,

Lyonel ici.

Got these from the Artemisian list a week ago.  Some of the translations are
more than a leetul beet rough, but who gives a fig?

>>      Phrases to drop during those long winded staff meetings... 
>>      I especially like this one..
>>      
>>      Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et 
>>      fructuosis potiri potes!
>>      
>>      If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, 
>>      high-paying world of Latin!
>>      
>>      
>>      
>>      
>>      
>> Die dulci fruere.
>> Have a nice day.
>>      
>> Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi. 
>> Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog.
>>      
>> Raptus regaliter
>> Royally screwed
>>      
>> Sona si Latine loqueris.
>> Honk if you speak Latin.
>>      
>> 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 will fling an enormous rock 
>> at your head.
>>      
>> Gramen artificiosum odi.
>> I hate Astroturf.
>>      
>> Furnulum pani nolo.
>> I don't want a toaster.
>>      
>> Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
>> I think some people in togas are plotting against me.
>>      
>> Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
>> I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.
>>      
>> Noli me vocare, ego te vocabo.
>> Don't call me, I'll call you.
>>      
>> Cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules.
>> If I were you, I wouldn't walk in front of any catapults.
>>      
>> Canis meus id comedit.
>> My dog ate it.
>>      
>> Illiud Latine dici non potest.
>> You can't say that in Latin.
>>      
>> Vidistine nuper imagines moventes bonas? 
>> Seen any good movies lately?
>>      
>> 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.
>>      
>> Fac ut gaudeam.
>> Make my day.
>>      
>> Braccae illae virides cum subucula rosea et tunica Caledonia-quam 
>> elenganter concinnatur!
>> Those green pants go so well with that pink shirt and the plaid jacket!
>>      
>> Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio.
>> Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway.
>>      
>> Re vera, potas bene.
>> Say, you sure are drinking a lot.
>>      
>> Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant! 
>> May barbarians invade your personal space!
>>      
>> Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant!
>> May conspirators assassinate you in the mall!
>>      
>> Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant! 
>> May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!
>>      
>> Radix lecti
>> Couch potato
>>      
>> Quo signo nata es?
>> What's your sign?
>>      
>> Romani quidem artem amatoriam invenerunt.
>> You know, the Romans invented the art of love.
>>      
>> O! Plus! Perge! Aio! Hui! Hem!
>> Oh! More! Go on! Yes! Ooh! Ummm!
>>      
>> Spero nos familiares mansuros.
>> I hope we'll still be friends.
>>      
>> Mellita, domi adsum.
>> Honey, I'm home.
>>      
>> Tam exanimis quam tunica nehru fio.
>> I am as dead as the nehru jacket.
>>      
>> Ventis secundis, tene cursum.
>> Go with the flow.
>>      
>> Totum dependeat.
>> Let it all hang out.
>>      
>> Te precor dulcissime supplex!
>> Pretty please with a cherry on top!
>>      
>> Magister Mundi sum!
>> I am the Master of the Universe!
>>      
>> Fac me cocleario vomere!
>> Gag me with a spoon!
>>      
>> Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure. 
>> I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.
>>      
>> 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?
>>      
>> Prehende uxorem meam, sis!
>> Take my wife, please!
>>      
>> 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 est--in vita priore ego imperator Romanus fui. 
>> That's nothing--in a previous life I was a Roman Emperor.
>>      
>> Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est. 
>> Yes, that is a very large amount of corn.
>>      
>> Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
>> Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business.
>>      
>> Oblitus sum perpolire clepsydras!
>> I forgot to polish the clocks!
>>      
>> Vescere bracis meis.
>> Eat my shorts.
>>      
>> Sic faciunt omnes.
>> Everyone is doing it.
>>      
>> Fac ut vivas.
>> Get a life.
>>      
>> Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus! 
>> Let's all wear mood rings!
>>      
>> Insula Gilliganis
>> Gilligan's Island
_____________________________
Dennis Grace
University of Texas at Austin
English Department
Recovering Medievalist
amazing at mail.utexas.edu

Things are more like they are today than they have ever been before.
                                                  --Dwight D. Eisenhower

(Don't Republicans say just the cutest things?)