A Conversation for Handy Latin Phrases
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Blatherskite the Mugwump - Bandwidth Bandit Started conversation Dec 8, 1999
"Given time, they loose track of which quotes correspond to which translation"- I believe the word required here is "lose"
"The kind who can make a Latino laugh with a well-placed Te capiam, cunicule sceleste!"-Latinos would have no idea what you're talking about, since they speak Spanish.
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Vestboy Posted Dec 8, 1999
Isn't it
Noli illegitimi carborundum
?
But don't let me grind you down 
When we had latin tests at school we all tried to get four out of ten wrong because when we marked our tests we had to call out our marks, in Latin for the teacher to write down in his mark book.
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Baker Posted Feb 10, 2000
Ha! Good one! My Latin teacher gave a curve on his tests--once I missed 35 of 50, and got a B!
Carpe cerevisi!
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Bluebelle Posted Apr 5, 2000
Or how about "Noli nothis permittere te terere"
Blue
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Lisa the Freak // Poet by the Toga Posted Nov 9, 2000
I wrote "Magister mundi sum!" on my Latin book on my first Latin lesson and it's wrong too..
"magister" = master, yes, but in the context of schoolmaster. You need "dominus". (well i need "domina".)
And you don't have capital letters in Latin apart from pronouns 
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Bubbles the Wandering Thingite Theoretical Mind (I am Heaven.) Posted Jan 10, 2001
actuallythewaytheromanswrotewouldbelikethiswithnospacesorpunctuationorcapitals
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Bubbles the Wandering Thingite Theoretical Mind (I am Heaven.) Posted Jan 10, 2001
VNLESS IT IS ON A MONVMENT
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- 1: Blatherskite the Mugwump - Bandwidth Bandit (Dec 8, 1999)
- 2: Vestboy (Dec 8, 1999)
- 3: Baker (Feb 10, 2000)
- 4: Bluebelle (Apr 5, 2000)
- 5: Lisa the Freak // Poet by the Toga (Nov 9, 2000)
- 6: Bubbles the Wandering Thingite Theoretical Mind (I am Heaven.) (Jan 10, 2001)
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