A Conversation for Handy Latin Phrases
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beeline Started conversation Nov 8, 1999
That's about the funniest page I've read on h2g2 - I was crying in the office! Great stuff! 
Just a couple more that I picked up:
De gustibus non est disputandum - There's no accounting for taste.
Homo 1: Dico, dico, dico; Canis mea nasum non habet.
Homo 2: Verum? Quomodo spirat per nasum?
Homo 1: Malus.
Doesn't translate that well (it being very hard to pun in Latin), but I thought it was funny. Latin is generally priceless...
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beeline Posted Nov 9, 1999
Have you read 'Winne Ille Pu' - the excellent Latin translation? That's pretty funny as well. I got my first taste of Latin trying to work out, with a Latin dictionary, what the terrible puns were in the Asterix books. And they really are terrible!
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Si Posted Nov 11, 1999
Heus, modo itera omnia quae mihi nunc nuper narravisti, sed nunc Anglice?
(How does it smell - good grief!)
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