Does Anyone Here Speak Latin?

[Neutron]

I'd like to have something translated please!!

 

[a1532b]

a little bit. what are you trying to translate?

 

[Neutron]

Here It Is

Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit

 

[Kalamos]

-> http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/ld/ldex081a1.html

?

 

[Neutron]

Thanks!!!

By the way, Lonesome Dove is where I saw that phrase!

 

[Kalamos]

From what I read, it should be "uva, uvam *videndo*, varia fit".

 

[Sockstickler]

Hey, Neutron, did you get your signature from the Toby Keith song? If so, then you might want to know it goes "I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was." Just wanted to let you know 🙂

 

[Neutron]

No..

The book says it the way I wrote it. MCMurtry may have made an error though.

Sockstickler SHIT thanks! I must have had a dyslexic moment.

 

[Sockstickler]

The book says it the way I wrote it. MCMurtry may have made an error though.

Sockstickler SHIT thanks! I must have had a dyslexic moment.

Hey, no problem 🙂 My dad's a huge country music nut, so I ended up picking up a lot of stuff.

 

[Dade]

It means:

A grape changes color in seeing another grape. A bad/good friend makes you a bad/good person.

And no one "speaks" Latin.

 

[Kalamos]

Well... technically, if you know some latin you can try and speak it.
Pronounce is going to be quite off, since we are being taught [and teach] church latin anyway.

Sure... it's a dead lang, but a few people still use it, and even publish books and comics in latin.

More as a matter of pride, than out of need.

 

[Neutron]

Dangit..

First of all thanks for the translation and for pointing out Latin isn't a spoken language. I knew that but didn't think things through.

I appreciate it.

Tron

 

[Dade]

No big deal. I guess I am a little anal at times. Have to be in my area of work. Sometimes it gets in the way.

 

[baptt1]

Not I, but would love to learn!

 

[Faramir]

Illigitimi Non Carburundum (?)

 

[Dade]

Illegitimi Non Carborundum
"Don't let the bastards grind you down"

According to Safire's New Political Dictionary, this is "a pseudo-Latin phrase meaning 'don't let the bastards grind you down'. Small signs and plaques carrying this message have appeared in U.S. business offices and army posts for at least a generation, since General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell used it as his motto in World War II. Carborundum is a trademark for silicon carbide, a leading commercial grinding substance...In politics, the motto was popularized by 1964 Republican nominee Senator Barry Goldwater, who hung the sign in his office." (--from Safire's New Political Dictionary, p. 353)

Source: Safire, William Safire's New Political Dictionary : The Definitive Guide to the New Language of Politics Random House, New York, 1993. (R 320.03 Sa1)

 

[Goodieluver]

Its spoken in some remote areas, especially if they are catholic churches(who phased out latin speaking masses around the 70s i believe

But scientists still use the language for classifying and other needs, there are also latin classes in college but i withdrew from that

Dr. Jones-but in the latin alphabet, jehovah starts with an I!
indy-J....::falls thru tile::

 

[Dade]

Latin is still used in many areas and is the basis for about 75%-80% of the English Language, but there is no conversational Latin as such which is what I meant by no one "speaks it". I took it for 4 years. Never had a conversation once. LOL

 

[Yet_One_More_Idiot]

I took Latin for 3 years in secondary school; could've done a GCSE in it, but I figured "what's the point?" 🙂 My best subjects were all sciences...

"Cogito ergo cogito sum" - "I think, therefore I think I am". 🙂 My own latin phrase, and kind of my belief in the universe. Basically, the world is only as real as we think it is.

What about school mottos? Anyone else here with a school motto in Latin? Mine was "Unitate Fortior". `

 

[Goodieluver]

Orbis non sufficit
the bond family motto

 

[Kalamos]

"Cogito ergo cogito sum" - "I think, therefore I think I am". 🙂 My own latin phrase, and kind of my belief in the universe. Basically, the world is only as real as we think it is.

Mmm... that phrase doesn't look quite right to me.

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* Flips through musty old books *

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Shouldn't it be more like "Cogito, ergo me cogito esse" or "Cogito, ergo cogito ut sim"?

 

[Yet_One_More_Idiot]

Umm, from what little I can now remember of my Latin classes, "Cogito ergo sum" translates as follows:

Cogito = I think
Ergo = therefore (or, well, ergo 🙂 )
Sum = I am.

So adding another cogito in the middle seems perfectly logical to me - whether or not it's grammatically correct is another matter entirely... 😛

 

[Kalamos]

Sum means "I am" in simple present, but "cogito" doesn't work with simple present, it usually requires infinitive.

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But hey, your motto, your call. 😉