h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm currently taking Latin so if you need any help, just ask!

Oh yes, and I'm not quite sure where to add something to the entry, but I've got another two little latin phrases

1. Facta non verba - Deeds not words
2. Ad astra per aspera - To the stars across aspiration

And I'm not sure if when you say them in english you pronounce the v like normal, but just to add v's in latins are pronounced like a w.

I am trying to think of a Latin phrase that has something to do with "I scratch your back and you scratch mine" type of thing and I'm stumped. Please help.

hello..i'm looking for a translation for the word loyalty into latin.. can you help?
many thanks

Loyalty...
Some people name their dogs "loyalty"... FIDO.

correction: FIDO = I am faithful (I think)
Perhaps "legalis" is loyalty...

Fido (as a verb) means more "I trust (in/to)"... as a noun fides or fidelitas is what you would be after - whence English 'fidelity'. The form would vary in context, and there are other words which could be used depending on context (just like English) but that would be the most usual...

thank you so much... that is just what i was looking for....

Not at all

no .....really... good of you to help.. here... have this and this and this ...oh hell. have these too

I have tried without success to find a Latin translation for the wonderfully descriptive phrase "Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough"

I think the words I want to use are something like:

aventaras et temptras si accredereris tu crudescere adfatim est

which is something like

Come near and test by attacking (or assail) if you believe you are sufficiently hard or violent

I don't have a clue about verbs declension so some help would be greatly appreciated

ha ha ha ha.... i have no clue, but i am very tickled by your desire to translate that into latin.... can picture very angry person in toga....hahaha...thanks...made my day

Verb declension eh?

Well. The first conjugation of a verb is (the verb im using is to conquer)
verb->superare (to conquer)
supero (I conquer)
superas (You conquer)
superat (he/she/it conquers)
superamus (we conquer)
superatis (you pl. conquer)
superant (they conquer)

The second conjugation is>
verb->videre (to see)
video (I see)
vides (you see)
videt (he/she/it sees)
videmus (we see)
videtis (you pl. see)
vident (they see)

There are more conjugations of verbs, but those are the only two you used, or so I believe since I'm too lazy to see what verb you actually had. But meh.

...and then there are the perfect tenses... and the imperfect... and the future... and the future perfect... and the subjunctives... and the passives... and the participles... and the... and the...

Very cool...

I'm needing a few Latin translations for another personal blog I'm creating. So far, wrestling with online Latin translators hasn't helped! Phrases considering:

"I went, I saw, I wrote"
or "Veni Vedi xxxx" might work

"I go, I see, I write"

"Have words will travel"

Thanks a zillion.

Gary
http://www.inkmusings.com

"I went, I saw, I wrote" ="ivi, vidi, scripsi"

But perhaps you mean

"I came, I saw, I wrote"="veni, vidi, scripsi"

"I go, I see, I write"="eo, video, scribo."


I've never really understood what is meant by expressions like "Have gun/girl/words etc., will travel". If I knew what it meant I'm sure I could translate it easily. But since I don't, I can't. So there!

Thanks, Banjo, LOL. The "Have gun...will travel" is a trademarked phrase from an old American TV western by that name, and means essentially "hired gun will travel [to do your dirty work]." Here'e more info than you probably want to know:

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/have-gun.htm

But the other phrases are great, especially "veni vidi scripsi" which is probably what I'll use (unless the HGWT translates to something that rolls nicely...).

Thanks again.
Gary

If the meaning is then: "I have words, I am willing to travel" it translates as:

"Verba habeo, iter facere volo."

The Latin is actually quite like the original phrase, since Latin usually omits pronouns like "I".

I was just thinking. If we invent a new regular Latin verb "blogare" (to blog), you could have "veni, vidi, blogavi" (I came, I saw, I blogged).

The verb could be stilusare. a stilus is basically like a pencil (well acutally it is a small wooden stick that they would use to engrave what they were writing on wax tablets, but...).