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Postby El_Skwidd » Fri May 01, 2009 7:09 am

Hey all, this is a totally out-there question, but does anybody know Latin? I'm writing a creative work for school and one of my characters is educated enough to speak in Latin, but I, unfortunately, am not. I've been able to find some stock phrases on the intarwubz but they aren't enough.

Anyone? 8)
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Postby Mr. Black » Fri May 01, 2009 7:24 am

Well, I know rudimentary Latin. And I have a syllabus right here.
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Postby El_Skwidd » Fri May 01, 2009 7:29 am

Hmm... I dunno where the line for "rudimentary" is drawn as far as vocabulary goes, but what the hell. Here's what I'm working with:

"May love newly-sown grow tall."
"From the bottom of my heart, thank you!"
"Pull the ropes." (imperative)
"Bring me blood." (imperative)
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Postby Mr. Black » Fri May 01, 2009 7:34 am

Huh. I'm not sure I can translate that....let me get back to you in a few hours .
PLAYER STATS

NAME: Mr. Black
AGE: 21
OCCUPATION: Fry-cook, occasional rocker
LIKES: Hard rock, metal, playing both, Cantr, the internet, and whiskey.
HATES: His apartment, lizards, snakes, being told what to do.
STR: -2
AGI: -10
INT: +10
RCK: >9000
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Postby DylPickle » Fri May 01, 2009 5:24 pm

http://www.yuni.com/library/latin.html

If you need to you can use a random site like this one to pick and choose from.[/url]

EDIT: Eck, if you try to select something on that site, ads pop up. Just google latin quotes or something. That's what I did.
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Postby Piscator » Fri May 01, 2009 7:50 pm

I did my best, but I wouldn't trust my translations too much.

"May love newly-sown grow tall.": "Crescit amor novus!" (The new love may grow... or something.)

"From the bottom of my heart, thank you!": "Ex fundo cordis gratias tibi/vobis (sing/pl) ago."

"Pull the ropes." (imperative): "Trahe/trahite (sing/pl) funes!"

"Bring me blood." (imperative): "Fer/ferte (sing/pl) mihi sanguinem!"
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Postby El_Skwidd » Fri May 01, 2009 8:32 pm

Thank you!
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Postby Mr. Black » Fri May 01, 2009 9:08 pm

Damn and I almost had it too...
PLAYER STATS

NAME: Mr. Black
AGE: 21
OCCUPATION: Fry-cook, occasional rocker
LIKES: Hard rock, metal, playing both, Cantr, the internet, and whiskey.
HATES: His apartment, lizards, snakes, being told what to do.
STR: -2
AGI: -10
INT: +10
RCK: >9000
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Postby Piscator » Fri May 01, 2009 10:05 pm

Post your translation, too.
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Postby Mr. Black » Fri May 01, 2009 11:25 pm

I was doing it in Word and I didn't save, hehe. But you win, anyhow.
PLAYER STATS

NAME: Mr. Black
AGE: 21
OCCUPATION: Fry-cook, occasional rocker
LIKES: Hard rock, metal, playing both, Cantr, the internet, and whiskey.
HATES: His apartment, lizards, snakes, being told what to do.
STR: -2
AGI: -10
INT: +10
RCK: >9000
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