Let’s Learn Latin
10-09-2008, 09:23 PM
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Useful phrases
Res ipsa loquitur -- "The thing speaks for itself"
Example: you hear a crash in the next room and find your cat beside the broken goldfish bowl.
Alia iacta est -- "The die has been cast"
Example: "Well, boys, we've crossed the Rubicon, and the Senate is going to have a cow no matter what we do now."
Res judicata -- "A matter that has already been ruled upon"
Example: a question previously answered by Vagabond.
Example: you hear a crash in the next room and find your cat beside the broken goldfish bowl.
Alia iacta est -- "The die has been cast"
Example: "Well, boys, we've crossed the Rubicon, and the Senate is going to have a cow no matter what we do now."
Res judicata -- "A matter that has already been ruled upon"
Example: a question previously answered by Vagabond.
10-09-2008, 09:46 PM
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Bovina sancta! - Holy cow!
We have a great list going. I'm off to bed now and will have more in the next few days.
For now, I would like to say this to Alaska Airline's Saretsky on behalf of all my friends there. Osculare pultem meam!
We have a great list going. I'm off to bed now and will have more in the next few days.
For now, I would like to say this to Alaska Airline's Saretsky on behalf of all my friends there. Osculare pultem meam!
10-10-2008, 07:41 PM
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Some of this stuff is pretty funny! (I'm fluent.)
Usque ad anum tuum, cum cimicibus et vapore.
^ Is the motto for the U.S. Army Chemical Corps it means "Up your a_s with bugs and gas."
Nole me tangere! Don't touch me!
Quod scripsi, sripsi. What I have written, I have written.
Volo volere! All I want to do is fly!
Usque ad anum tuum, cum cimicibus et vapore.
^ Is the motto for the U.S. Army Chemical Corps it means "Up your a_s with bugs and gas."
Nole me tangere! Don't touch me!
Quod scripsi, sripsi. What I have written, I have written.
Volo volere! All I want to do is fly!
