Handy Latin Phrases.

[RangerWickett]

I like a lot of the "latin" that shows up now and then in Discworld books. Like the motto of the Ankh-Morpork Watch, "FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC"

'I made God, punk?'

 

[Hypersmurf]

'I made God, punk?'

diem, not deum!

"Make my day".

-Hyp.

 

[RangerWickett]

Sorry, I've been on a deit lately. I only pray to my diety that I don't become anorexic.

 

[MaxKaladin]

I came across these pages yesterday:

http://www.ealasaid.com/quotes/latinser.html
http://www.ealasaid.com/quotes/latinsil.html


Some of my favorites:

Sunt pueri pueri, pueri puerilia tractant.
Boys are boys, and boys do boy-stuff. (ie, boys will be boys) -- The more things change...

Nihil tam absurdum, qhod non dictum sit ab aliquo
There is nothin so absurd as not to have been said by a philosopher
-------Cicero

Si post fata venit gloria non propero
If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it.
-------Martial

Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!
May barbarians invade your personal space!

TIBI GRATIAS AGIMUS QUOD NIHIL FUMAS
THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING

SI HOC SIGNUM LEGERE POTES,
OPERIS BONI IN REBUS LATINIS ALACRIBUS
ET FRUCTUOSIS POTIRI POTES!
IF YOU CAN READ THIS SIGN,
YOU CAN GET A GOOD JOB IN THE FAST-PACED,
HIGH-PAYING WORLD OF LATIN!

 

[Hypersmurf]

I once received a copy of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" translated into Latin as a birthday present.

The translators kept a "Seussian" feel to the language, with plenty of alliteration, rhyme, etc.

Very, very cool.

-Hyp.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Some of my favorites, mostly from unit mottoes (though I can't vouch for the quality of the Latin):

De oppresso liber
Sic semper tyrannous
Carpe jugulum
Pro patria
Vox populi, vox dei

 

[Staffan]

It's a bit too long to quote, but... http://www.livejournal.com/users/quislibet/164084.html

 

[Gez]

Looking for the Addams Family motto (Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc, "we gladly feast on those who would subdue us"), I found Nemmerle's personal forums:
http://www.funkyfrogforums.com/index.php?showtopic=5264

 

[Gez]

Look also at this: http://www.fairding.com/list_latin.shtml

Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
Never tickle a sleeping dragon - school motto of Hogwarts - of the Harry Potter books.

 

[Lord Rasputin]

SI HOC SIGNUM LEGERE POTES,
OPERIS BONI IN REBUS LATINIS ALACRIBUS
ET FRUCTUOSIS POTIRI POTES!
IF YOU CAN READ THIS SIGN,
YOU CAN GET A GOOD JOB IN THE FAST-PACED,
HIGH-PAYING WORLD OF LATIN!

Si hoc legere potes,
Fur es qui librum meum sumpsisti!

-- inside cover of my Monster Manual 3.5. It'll be just my luck for some barbarus to take it and not be able to read whither to return the book!