[Funny] Latin Translations ;-)
Magesteff
I got this from the Good Clean Funnies List.
You never know when a little conversational Latin might come in
handy. Toward that end I've dug up a few Latin phrases for you
to familiarize yourself with...
Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.
It's not the heat, it's the humidity.
Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!
God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!
Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.
The designated hitter rule has got to go.
Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
I think some people in togas are plotting against me.
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax
materiam possit materiari?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could
chuck wood?
(At a barbeque)
Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?
Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into
your face?
Neutiquam erro.
I am not lost.
Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo
elabitur.
Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just
sort of slips out.
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Steven H. Mesnick
> For those of you who are looking for a latin motto...
> I got this from the Good Clean Funnies List.
A word to the wise...these are copyright Henry Beard, from
his "Latin for All Occasions" series.
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Elsa Saxisdatter
Wonderful stuff!
Elsa
"Steven H. Mesnick" <ste...@pobox.com> wrote in message news:<3C183DEB...@pobox.com>...
Magesteff
> > For those of you who are looking for a latin motto...
> > I got this from the Good Clean Funnies List.
>
> A word to the wise...these are copyright Henry Beard, from
> his "Latin for All Occasions" series.
Oy! Wasn't on the e-mail I received. Thank you for the information, I
will pass it on to those I received it from.
--
Magesteff
Nathan Shafer
>
> > For those of you who are looking for a latin motto...
> > I got this from the Good Clean Funnies List.
>
> A word to the wise...these are copyright Henry Beard, from
> his "Latin for All Occasions" series.
Ummmm....I don't quite see how they COULD be copyrighted. The phrases
themselves (with the possible exception of "Oh, was I speaking Latin
again?" are common phrases, and the Latin translations are just that:
translations. Assuming that they are fairly straightforward, anyone
starting with a knowledge of Latin and those phrases would arrive at the
same place.
So there's no new idea or anything that could be copyrighted, at least
as far as I can see. YOu might just as well try to copyright the words
"Merry Christmas!"
- Fergus MacLennan
Goedjn
The chances are that the whole list, or any substantial part of it, would.
Anthony J. Bryant
> "Steven H. Mesnick" wrote:
>
> > A word to the wise...these are copyright Henry Beard, from
> > his "Latin for All Occasions" series.
>
> Ummmm....I don't quite see how they COULD be copyrighted. The phrases
> themselves (with the possible exception of "Oh, was I speaking Latin
> again?" are common phrases, and the Latin translations are just that:
> translations. Assuming that they are fairly straightforward, anyone
> starting with a knowledge of Latin and those phrases would arrive at the
> same place.
>
Be that as it may, it's from a book that I'm holding in front of me which
displays a copyright notice, so apparently their lawyers felt it *could* be
copyrighted. For the record, such sayings as "Beam me up, Scotty" may not
be copyrightable, but the *translation* of them -- especially if they are
particularly idiosyncratic and so forth -- *can* be. After all, "Finger
lick'n good" is a registered trademarked phrase....
Effingham
Goedjn
are completely different animals, right?
Anthony J. Bryant
> You *DO* realize that "copyright" and "trademark"
> are completely different animals, right?
>
I'm talking about the principle of protecting slogans and other cool, pithy
sayings.
"Finger lickin' good" has a little "circle-and-R" on it, not a "circle-and-C",
but the idea still holds.
Effingham
Steven H. Mesnick
> be copyrightable, but the *translation* of them -- especially if they are
> particularly idiosyncratic and so forth -- *can* be. After all, "Finger
> lick'n good" is a registered trademarked phrase....
>
> Effingham
For that matter, Volvo owns the phrase "Drive safely". Yeah, really.
But that isn't quite what we're talking about here, is it? That's
*trademarks*. This is *copyright*.
Anyway, even if
the book consisted *only* of English expressions, it could be
under copyright: consider Bartlett's Quotations, for example. Quoting
a substantial chunk of that might still be a violation of
copyright.
And where does your idea come from that the material has to be
new and different? Say I were to compile, oh, a list of metric
equivalents of common English measurements...I could copyright
that compilation, even though the material is public knowledge.
No, I can't copyright the fact that a pound is 454 grams, but
you still can't copy my book (or substantial parts of it).
-- Not a lawyer (although I play one in the SCA....)
Dennis O'Connor
"Nathan Shafer" <sha...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:3C1E3094...@earthlink.net...
> "Steven H. Mesnick" wrote:
> >
> > > For those of you who are looking for a latin motto...
> > > I got this from the Good Clean Funnies List.
> >
> > A word to the wise...these are copyright Henry Beard, from
> > his "Latin for All Occasions" series.
>
> Ummmm....I don't quite see how they COULD be copyrighted. The phrases
> themselves (with the possible exception of "Oh, was I speaking Latin
> again?" are common phrases, and the Latin translations are just that:
> translations.
I think it's called "compilation copyright". And translations may be
separately copyrightable, as they are not mechanical and involve
some creativity by the translator.
--
Dennis O'Connor dm...@primenet.com
We don't become a rabid dog to destroy a rabid dog.
Anthony J. Bryant
>
> Ummmm....I don't quite see how they COULD be copyrighted. The phrases
> themselves (with the possible exception of "Oh, was I speaking Latin
> again?" are common phrases, and the Latin translations are just that:
> translations.
>
And, for the record again, although "Tale of Genji" was written in 1000 and
is WELL out of copyright, all of its modern translations *are* copyright,
the property of the people who did the work to make the translations. <G>
Effingham