Useful Latin Phrases

Erno H. Klaassen

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This list of handy latin terms was in the San Jose Mercury News some
time ago. They list the origin as a book called Henry Beard's "Latin
For All Occasions."

Eng: I think that Elvis is still alive.
Latin: Credo Elvem ipsum etian vivere.

Eng: Read my lips.
Latin: Labra lege.

Eng: Thank you for not smoking.
Latin: Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas.

Eng: Save the whales.
Latin: Balaenae nobie conservandae sunt.

Eng: Garbage in, garbage out.
Latin: Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum.

Eng: Let's look at the bottom line.
Latin: Summam scrutemur.

Eng: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Latin: Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.

Eng: It ain't over until it's over.
Latin: Id imperfectum manet dum confectum erit.

Eng: Hold my calls.
Latin: Fac ut nemo me vocet.

Eng: Baby, sweetheart, would I lie to you?
Latin: Amicule, deliciae, num is sum qui mentiar tibi?

Eng: Really rad, dude!
Latin: Radicitus, comes!

Eng: I'd like to buy some condoms.
Latin: Volo comparare nonnulla tegumembra.

Eng: Your slip is showing.
Latin: Subucula tua apparet.

Eng: Your fly is open.
Latin: Braccae tuae aperiuntur.

Eng: Your place or mine?
Latin: Apudne te vel me?

Eng: I'll have a pizza with everything on it.
Latin: Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo.

Eng: The fat lady has sung.
Latin: Obesa cantavit.

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UC Berkeley

Neal Whitman

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Jan 27, 1992, 12:51:55 PM1/27/92

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Quid me dixisse putes te comprehendere te credere scio,
non autem pro certo habeo quid audiveris quid dicere
velim non esse to cognoscere.

the famous, "I know you believe you understand what you
think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what
you heard is not what I meant." No, I didn't get it from
H. Beard's book; I translated it my very own self!

-verbum

Bob Krezel

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Jan 27, 1992, 4:27:24 PM1/27/92

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He knows the faith.
Fidem scit.

Bob Krezel kre...@oasys.dt.navy.mil
"I yam a physicist so I knows what matters" - POPEYE

M Lloyd

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Jan 29, 1992, 12:05:17 PM1/29/92

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In article <1992Jan23.1...@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> er...@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Erno H. Klaassen) writes:
>This list of handy latin terms was in the San Jose Mercury News some
>time ago. They list the origin as a book called Henry Beard's "Latin
>For All Occasions."
>

> [..deleted..]

I was always kinda fond of a cartoon of a bust of Mozart, inscribed
with the motto:
"Nil significat, nil oscillat"
which is woeful latin for "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that
swing"

Cheers
Mike
.sig? Nah.

Steven Schmid

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Keith Higa

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Feb 3, 1992, 9:42:15 PM2/3/92

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In article <1992Jan30.1...@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> sch...@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Steven Schmid) writes:
>
(a blank article)

Kinda says it all, doesn't it?
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The opinion expressed here is the creation of a sick mind and does not in
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Maurice E. Suhre

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Feb 4, 1992, 5:43:49 PM2/4/92

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Speaking of cartoons, I'm reminded of the one that shows a woman
partially sitting up in bed. There is a huge lump under the covers.
The caption reads: "When you crawled under the covers I was expecting
something more interesting than 'this little piggy went to market'!".
--
Maurice Suhre
su...@trwrb.dsd.trw.com

Mark Israel

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Feb 4, 1992, 1:16:33 AM2/4/92

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In article <968...@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, er...@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Erik Lode) writes:

> What do you call a person who speaks 3 languages?
> Tri-lingual.
>
> What do you call a person who speaks 2 languages?
> Bi-lingual.
>
> What do you call a person who speaks only 1 language?
> American.

Then there's the cartoon of the couple in bed on their wedding night.
One of them is looking very disappointed. The other one is saying:
"I speak 3 languages. What did you THINK 'tri-lingual' meant?"

user...@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca Mark Israel
"Je voudrais que la rose fut encore au rosier."

David Geiser

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Feb 7, 1992, 1:46:12 PM2/7/92

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Personal favorite:

Cogito ergo spud.

I think, therefore I yam.

TIM TIERNEY

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Feb 11, 1992, 2:26:14 PM2/11/92

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All right.....wait a minute....I usually use this with all the messages
I post.....no fair......

Tim
Cogito Ergo Spud
(I think therefore I Yam)

Diane Susan Palme

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Feb 12, 1992, 2:21:58 PM2/12/92

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In article <6254...@col.hp.com> d...@col.hp.com (David Geiser) writes:

My own personal favorite:

semper ubi sub ubi

Always wear underwear.

Belding, Troy C.

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Feb 12, 1992, 9:23:00 PM2/12/92

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In article <1992Feb12....@uwm.edu>, nan...@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Diane Susan Palme) writes...

mine is

vino ergo sum

I drink, therefore I am.
__________________________________________________________________________
I'll get a life when it is proven and substantiated that it is better
than what I am currently experiencing.
Troy C. Belding
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Il Hwan Oh

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Feb 13, 1992, 6:56:54 PM2/13/92

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st...@elroy.uh.edu (Belding, Troy C.) writes:
> nan...@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Diane Susan Palme) writes...

> > d...@col.hp.com (David Geiser) writes:

> >>Cogito ergo spud.
> >>I think, therefore I yam.

> >semper ubi sub ubi
> >Always wear underwear.

> vino ergo sum

> I drink, therefore I am.

I thought that "dipso ergo sum" was "I drink, therefore I am".

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Ben Fulton

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Feb 14, 1992, 11:03:35 AM2/14/92

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i...@bambam.u.washington.edu (Il Hwan Oh) writes:

>> >semper ubi sub ubi
>> >Always wear underwear.

>> vino ergo sum
>> I drink, therefore I am.

>I thought that "dipso ergo sum" was "I drink, therefore I am".

for mathematicians:

cogito, ergo am
I think, therefore I sum

ben
ful...@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
out of reach, out of disbelief

Brian Gregory Fern

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Feb 16, 1992, 6:40:21 PM2/16/92

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"venimus, vidimus, vastavimus"

- We came, we saw, we kicked a**!

Ralf Muhlberger

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Feb 16, 1992, 8:10:42 PM2/16/92

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In <1992Feb16.2...@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> bg...@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Brian Gregory Fern) writes:

>"venimus, vidimus, vastavimus"

> - We came, we saw, we kicked a**!

Obviously a latin major :-), could anyone translate

"Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!" ?

I tried once, but didn't get very far as I only had a very
limited latin dictionary.

Thanks,

Ralf.

----Ralf Muhlberger----(ra...@rose.cs.uq.oz.au)----University of Queensland----
I wonder if other people can hear voices in their head. I certainly can. I can
hear one now. It's saying: "I wonder if other people can hear voices ... "

Andrew Halsall

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Feb 17, 1992, 11:45:54 AM2/17/92

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"Non gratus anus rodentum" - not worth a rat's ass

Van Snyder

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Feb 17, 1992, 9:58:21 PM2/17/92

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And the ubiquitous

Illigitimus non carborundum (don't let the bastards grind you down).
--
Van Snyder = vsn...@math.jpl.nasa.gov

Jon Wells

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Feb 18, 1992, 1:28:45 PM2/18/92

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>"Non gratus anus rodentum" - not worth a rat's arse
>--

How about :

"Ne te confundantem illegitimi" (or something like that)

= Don't let the bastards get you down !

Walter R. Trachim

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Feb 19, 1992, 9:40:34 AM2/19/92

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I always thought it was "Non Illegitimus Carborundum" = Don't Let the
Bastards Wear You Down
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Karl-Christian Hansen

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Feb 26, 1992, 8:11:57 AM2/26/92

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Bibido, ergo sum. (I drink, therefore I am).

Karl

Tim Capps

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Feb 24, 1992, 4:41:53 AM2/24/92

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ful...@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton) writes:

> for mathematicians:
>
> cogito, ergo am
> I think, therefore I sum

On a slightly different tack...

Declining the noun 'Pig':

Piggo
Pigare
Squeeley
Gruntum

Conjugating the verb 'spit':

Spitto
Spittare
Ach-tui
Splattus

Ok, these aren't original, actually they came from a rather stuffy book I was
forced to read way back in high school. Can't seem to forget 'em, though. :-)

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Martin

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Feb 28, 1992, 6:16:32 AM2/28/92

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ka...@diku.dk (Karl-Christian Hansen) writes:

>Bibido, ergo sum. (I drink, therefore I am).

actually it's bibo, ergo sum

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Josh 'K' Hopkins

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Feb 29, 1992, 6:09:57 PM2/29/92

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mar...@specialix.co.uk (Martin) writes:
>ka...@diku.dk (Karl-Christian Hansen) writes:
>>Bibido, ergo sum. (I drink, therefore I am).

>actually it's bibo, ergo sum

The original poster was confusing this with a similar Latin word begining with
'L' instead of 'B' :)

Josh Hopkins

D. C. Sessions

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Computo, ergo sum, difference, product, quotient....
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Mike Fester

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In article <-brh=p...@lynx.unm.edu> mulb...@triton.unm.edu writes:

>In article <1992Feb26....@odin.diku.dk> ka...@diku.dk (Karl-Christian Hansen) writes:
>>
>>Bibido, ergo sum. (I drink, therefore I am).
>>
>>Karl
>

>How about:
> Coito, ergo sum.

Shouldn't that be

Coito, ergo cum.

Just curious.
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Sandeep Cariapa

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Mar 3, 1992, 3:10:42 PM3/3/92

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How about:
Porque demando porque.
(Okay so it was Italian and I mangled the spelling)

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Dave Larkins

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In article <1992Mar3.2...@EE.Stanford.EDU> car...@Tied-House.Stanford.EDU (Sandeep Cariapa) writes:

> Porque demando porque.

Il bastardius nil carborundum descendus?

David Richter

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friend who wants a copy. I no longer follow this newsgroup, so please e-mail.
I'll post a canonical list after I get all the lists people
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David Richter
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Colin Garth Dunn

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I would very much appreciate it if this list could be mailed to me also. I
missed it too.

Thanks.

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