A Conversation for Handy Latin Phrases
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Spanner Started conversation Oct 8, 1999
stercorem pro cerebro habet? eg "S/He is one of whom the Romans would have said stercorem pro cerebro habet" - in other words a rather nice and obscure way of saying someone has ah excrement for brains
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Spanner Posted Oct 23, 1999
try the love is (2) forum, although we're all either too damn romantic, or too cynical, to get really stuck in to each other - it's all pretty genial actually, the more i think about it. well by my standards anyway.
i'll have to see if i can blunder my way into some more vicious ones (other than me and hardlabour having a go at each other - we do that all the time)
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Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here Posted Nov 6, 1999
Merkin, here's a few new ones
Fac ut nemo me vocet - Hold my calls
Noli hoc praeterire - Don't pass this on
Amicule, num is sum qui mentiar tibi - Baby, would I lie to you?
Ego te demitto - You're fired
Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum - Don't you dare erase my hard drive
And my favourite - Credo Elvem ipsum etiam vivere - I believe Elvis is alive
I like using Latin as footnotes on emails, confusion rules
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Merkin Posted Nov 8, 1999
it's good isn't it. Especially in the workplace, since no-one wants to admit taht they have no idea what you're saying, since they assume it's something wise and educational, rather than an threat concerning the use of catapults.
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