vivamus, R U a latin lover too?

by Incense_and_Peppermints 8 Replies latest jw friends

  • Incense_and_Peppermints
    Incense_and_Peppermints

    hey there. i notice that you use latin phrases in your posts sometimes. i use some of them in email sigs, etc. here is one of my favorites: "In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni." so far, only one person has translated it successfully. it means: "we enter the circle at night and are consumed by fire". cool huh. i think it is a fascinating language, and that they should teach it in elementary schools again., since so many words found their roots in latin. anyway, here are some unusual latin phrases you might like.

    Die dulci fruere.
    Have a nice day.

    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!

    Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
    I think some people in togas are plotting against me.

    Noli me vocare, ego te vocabo.
    Don't call me, I'll call you.

    Fac ut gaudeam.
    Make my day.

    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!

    Quo signo nata es?
    What's your sign?

    Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
    How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

    Fac ut vivas.
    Get a life.

    Sic faciunt omnes.
    Everyone is doing it.

  • Vivamus
    Vivamus

    LOL! Am gonna copy does ones! Thanks!

    Afraid I can't think of any fun ones right now to share, but I do like this one ""Qui mortem metuit, quod vivit, perdit id ipsum" and than off course this one "Dum vivimus, vivamus!"

    I am not really good at Latin though, I can decipher most of it, so that I can get the general idea, but that is about the sum of my abilities in that direction.

    Viv.

  • Incense_and_Peppermints
    Incense_and_Peppermints

    i like the woodchuck one the best. it's the cutest!

    so what do yours mean, if you don't mind my asking?

    i love the way the words are pronounced. in fact, that was one of the things i liked about braveheart so much, longshank's thugs speaking latin in some parts. pretty cool-sounding language. i think it has something to do with being catholic early on...

    Edited by - Incense_and_Peppermints on 21 July 2002 19:33:40

  • Vivamus
    Vivamus

    Hehe, funny you should mention Braveheart! After almost three days straight hanging around this board (I am seriously addicted), I had this sudden urge to see that movie. [Sigh], at the ending when he says "They fought like warrior-poets, they fought like Scotsmen, and won their FREEDOM" Ahhh, goosebumps all over.

    My first quote means "He who fears death, even loses the life he has". And the second one means "As long as we live, let us LIVE".

    Viv.

  • Incense_and_Peppermints
    Incense_and_Peppermints

    wow. that is so awesome. that's what it's all about, you know... freedom. i like this one:

    "I will never be on the wrong side again". -Robert the Bruce (wasn't he hot?)

    i used to use this as my sig here, but the sigs don't work: "per aspera ad astra", which means "from the thorns to the stars". anyway nice to meetcha.

  • refiners fire
    refiners fire

    Hers one my grandfather told me when I was about 6 years old.We were sat round the fire and he said "What language is this"?

    funny I never forgot it....

    Inmudeelis Inclaynonis Canamare eatay

    Yeah I know its a pathetic effort but I tried at least.....

  • Vivamus
    Vivamus

    Hehe, the entire movie was filled with hot men! What did you think of this one "your heart is free, have the courage to follow her" (That's what William's dad said).

    lol @ fire.

    Is nice to meet you too Incense!

  • Incense_and_Peppermints
    Incense_and_Peppermints

    ooh you know it. (about the hot men). oh but robert the bruce, with that sweet sensitve way about him, all agonized over his indecision. i love anguished men like that.

    i love all the quotes from that film. so stirring... like this one. when mel gibson was delivering this line, his inflection was just right. i would have followed him into doom too!

    I am William Wallace, and I stand here, in front of a whole army of my countrymen, in the difance of tyranny. You came here as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight.
    Soldier2: Against that? No, we will run, and we will live.
    Wallace: Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live, at least for awhile. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing, to take all the days from this day till then, to come back here and tell our enemies, they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

    one of the most touching parts of that film was when that little girl gave him the flower, and then when he grew up, he gave it back to her. he had kept it all those years. *sigh*

    RF: now you have to tell what it means...

    Edited by - Incense_and_Peppermints on 22 July 2002 15:53:8

  • Incense_and_Peppermints
    Incense_and_Peppermints

    speaking of angsty men...


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