Handy Latin Phrases.

[Painfully]

in vinum veritas

- there is truth in wine.

 

[Dogbrain]

Illegetemis non corobundum.
---Don't let the bastards get you down

This is a sort of "comedy" pseudo-Latin, which has been mis-spelled, and accompanied with an incorrect pseudo-translation, to boot, thus ruining the joke altogether. Rather appropriate, considering.


The joke is thus:

Illegitimis non carborundum.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Unfortunately, it doesn't actually work in Latin. "Carborundum" is a trademark that was coined in the modern era for a specific formulation of silica carbide. And the Latin for "bastard" was either nothus homo for a (male) bastard of a known father or spurius for a (male) bastard of unknown father. Illegitimus did mean "illegitimate", but more on the order of "not legal" or "not according to the forms".

The gist of the joke is that it is very much not Latin and very obviously not Latin to anybody who knows any Latin, but it might be thrown about by somebody who is trying to appear impressively educated and is so clueless as to not recognize such an obvious gaffe.

 

[Dogbrain]

And some real ones:

Alia iacta est
Amor caeca est.

Note that it can be good Latin to simply say:

"Alia iacta."
"Amor caeca."

In this case, the verb can be omitted, especially if poetic meter might demand it.

 

[Ferret]

Intro Barathrum
Go to hell

Indigeo quidam nosco quidam
Takes one to know one

Carpe potestas, iuguolo infirmus
Seize the power, butcher the weak

Veni vidi diripio prodo diabolus
I came, I saw, I tore to pieces and sent to satan.

 

[Dogbrain]

Intro Barathrum
Go to hell

Ad infernum vadete!

 

[Ferret]

Would that be the correct latin?

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Edit: On second thought, maybe thats not such a good idea to post...

 

[Mixmaster]

Thank you Dogbrain, much obliged.

Omnes Necate!
Omnes Annihilate!
Fortior Celebrate!

Note that "annihilate" has five syllables and "celebrate" has four syllables in Latin. Do not pronounce like the English words "annihilate" and "celebrate".

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

I've always found this to be handy:

"Quando omni flunkus moritati"

 

[RangerWickett]

Sum non wallabus.
I am not a wallaby.

Romans go home!