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Rick Harrison

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Aug 9, 2008, 8:10:30 PM8/9/08
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I know this is silly, but... I need a Latin translation of the Borg
mantra "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." for use in an
upcoming debate.

B. T. Raven

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Aug 10, 2008, 12:46:57 AM8/10/08
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repugnantia fut(t)ilis

Caligula

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Aug 10, 2008, 3:18:27 AM8/10/08
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Rick Harrison a écrit :

> I know this is silly, but... I need a Latin translation of the Borg
> mantra "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." for use in an
> upcoming debate.

"You will be assimilated" at who ? I do not understand this mantra, thence I
cannot translate into Latin.

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Caligula

Ed Cryer

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Aug 10, 2008, 6:25:34 AM8/10/08
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"Caligula" <caius.c...@club-internet.fr> wrote in message
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You should watch more "Dr Who". The Borgs "assimilate" humans into the
being of the Master Borg. Which means that they cease to exist in their
present admirably human individual way and kind of "die". So I suggest
coining a word; adsimilare.

Frustra resistitur. Vobis adsimilabitur.

Ed

Ed Cryer

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Aug 10, 2008, 6:59:54 AM8/10/08
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"Ed Cryer" <e...@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Caligula" <caius.c...@club-internet.fr> wrote in message
> news:489e9645$0$299$7a62...@news.club-internet.fr...
>> Rick Harrison a écrit :
>>
>>> I know this is silly, but... I need a Latin translation of the Borg
>>> mantra "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." for use in
>>> an
>>> upcoming debate.
>>
>> "You will be assimilated" at who ? I do not understand this mantra,
>> thence I cannot translate into Latin.
>>
>> --
>> Caligula
>>
>
> You should watch more "Dr Who".

Or even "Star Trek".

Ed

Rick Harrison

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Aug 10, 2008, 1:57:49 PM8/10/08
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In article <g7mfna$v1b$1...@aioe.org>, Ed Cryer <e...@somewhere.in.the.uk>
wrote:

> You should watch more "Dr Who". The Borgs "assimilate" humans into the
> being of the Master Borg. Which means that they cease to exist in their
> present admirably human individual way and kind of "die". So I suggest
> coining a word; adsimilare.

"assimilated" in this case = absorbed, incorporated, turned into a
small part of a larger entity.

B. T. Raven

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Aug 10, 2008, 2:49:40 PM8/10/08
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Yes, "absorbeberis," or "intussusceptus eris" = you will have been
snatched up inside us."

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