Again with the Bad Latin

[GreenWyvern]

@JKellyMap

Thanks. Sceleritus must be a derived adjective. I distinctly recall puer sceleritus as “rascally boy.” The series of slender books was called Ecce Homo (“Behold! A man!”).

Are you it wasn’t the Ecce Romani series?

Here’s a list of Latin words starting with ‘scel-’ from L&S.

I think it must have been ‘puer scelestus’.

[cochrane]

In the immortal words of Captain James T. Kirk:

Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!

[JKellyMap]

@GreenWyvern

Are you it wasn’t the Ecce Romani series?

Here’s a list of Latin words starting with ‘scel-’ from L&S.

I think it must have been ‘puer scelestus’.

You’re right about the name of the series. I’m sure about “sceleritus,” though.

ETA: I misspelled it — it’s “sceleratus”

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@thelurkinghorror

integer vitae scelerisque purus - “upright of life and free from vice”

Just a plaque somewhere? A pic of his grave appears to just say the first part:
Ohio Governor Gravesites: #28 Jacob D. Cox

Thanks! Yes, it’s on a plaque in the front lobby of the Cox Administration Building at Oberlin College.

[AskNott]

Terry Pratchett, in Lords and Ladies, has Nanny Ogg reading a label on a wine bottle, and she decides that “Chat-eau” means “Cat’s Water.”

[DPRK]

@AskNott

Terry Pratchett, in Lords and Ladies, has Nanny Ogg reading a label on a wine bottle, and she decides that “Chat-eau” means “Cat’s Water.”

aqua felix → aqua felis

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Better than “toilet water,” I suppose.

[Peter_Morris]

Caesar carri donna militari orgi versus Belgao, Helvetii, Venetii, Britanni, iunemit. Romis glorius sed Caesar, nomen me impunit. Meni traedit, Veringetorix, forin stans. Caesar noctim sili fors ticinis nec aut. Ab lumen nervi felo sed Caesar, Marcus Antonius sed iubet.

• commentaries on the Gallic wars, condensed version.

[JKellyMap]

Ha!!

[Johanna]

@Johnny_Angel

What they want is more like “Ambulā in calceōs meōs ut morēs meōs intellegās.” Just call somebody, for crapping out loud. It’s not that hard.

Approbo sententiam Latinam tuam, amice.

I never got to go to a Latin class. I’m self-taught.

[Kaotickatie]

@thelurkinghorror

Since Harry Potter always uses proper Latin for its spells (Oculus Reparo!), I was appalled that in that one HP parody episode AD did not take the same care. “Lavete las manos” does not show up in any Latin dictionary!

The reason that it isn’t Latin is because he was in a dope house. The man who told him to
Wash his hands before handling their product. That’s why it wasn’t meant to be Latin. Paying attention to the entire episode would have helped. Why would a Spanish drug chemist be speaking Latin?

[Kaotickatie]

The translation is correct if done as such…

Ingredior! in meus calceus quod vos mos agnosco

Which means… in rough Latin … Walk! In my shoes and you will know.

It’s technically a perfect translation if you have correct punctuation… but only because they wanted to go to a translator and type in one word and then follow it with a sentence…

The irony is that whoever did the translation probably wasn’t exactly a latin scholar
It’s not an easy language to navigate with all of the double and hidden meanings… to be honest it’s more complicated than English.

@Johnny_Angel

Probably not worth a pit thread, but once again I am disappointed at a TV writer’s refusal to pick up a phone and call somebody who actually knows Latin. A recent episode of American Dad featured an old man casting a curse with these words:

“Ingredior in meus calceus quod vos mos agnosco!”

I had trouble working out what these words were even supposed to be, because they weren’t pronounced by any recognizable English standard, much less an actual Latin one. But googling around I was able to find translators that give more or less this exact wrong translation.

What they mean to say, reading just by the vocabulary used, “Walk in my shoes and you will understand.” What it actually says is more like “I, my shoes, walk in what you people I, morals, come to recognize.”

What they want is more like “Ambulā in calceōs meōs ut morēs meōs intellegās.” Just call somebody, for crapping out loud. It’s not that hard.

[Kaotickatie]

Though another way it can be read is Ingredior! in meus calceus quod vos mos agnosco.

Walk! In my shoe and you will understand. Either way the issue is in punctuation replacement.

[Kaotickatie]

The really funny part is if you use a vocal translator… like a MUAMA Enence … it says something like walk my shoes you will understand

[bd133]

Because it is Spanish, not Latin.

[thelurkinghorror]

That’s the joke, yes.