Congrats, Matt! Now, in preparation for your post-graduation job, please repeat after me:
“You want fries with that?”
Congrats, Matt! Now, in preparation for your post-graduation job, please repeat after me:
“You want fries with that?”
Well somebody has a new precious.
Conga-rats.
Congrats, Matt! When’s the party?
Congrats man! I gotta get a translation, though, for most of it. heh.
Congrats, matt!!!
Congrats!!!
You’re posting in it.
Bravo, Matthieu.
Je suis fière de toi! Toute ta famille aussi, sans doute - incluant ton papa qui était certainement là hier aussi…
Je t’embrasse,
Elly
Congratulations, matt! I don’t know what you did, but good for you!
Well, let’s see if I can translate this.
Our governors started a soccer program at McGill University
A mountie in Canada was sitting on the bus littering it with perverted ads
The governors told Matthew McLauchlin about the soccer program
and told him to quit buying study drugs from the “candyman” and come get some exercise in the good outdoors
BACCALAUREUM ARTIUM
So matt_mcl went to the soccer stadium and had a good time playing soccer with the artistic single men. He scored two goals and got an assist and a couple of phone numbers.
And nobody knows what happened to the mountie.
Oh, fine.
"We, the governors, principal, and fellows of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, send to all to whom these presents may come, greeting.
“We, the governors, principal, and fellows of the university, testify that Matthew McLauchlin, who diligently completed the prescribed course of study, and who discharged all the exercises required of him, is created Bachelor of Arts, and is conceded all the honours, privileges, and benefits that pertain to that degree.”
“In witness whereof, to these letters we have caused the seal of the university and the names of those who administer academic affairs to be affixed.”
Dated, the fourth day of the month of June, in the year of the Christian Era 2003."
Congrats, Matt_mcl
:):)
Nah, Nemo, you got part of it wrong.
This is about King Montel Williams of Canada.
On preview, I have to say that’s a much better translation
On preview, I have to say that yours is a much better translation, LittleNemo.
Congratulations! Did you have a graduation ceremony conducted in Latin as well?
btw - James McGill, prior to emigrating to Canada, lived only a few miles from me. As it is on the way to a nive pub, I’ll find an excuse to go and say hello to his ghost or shade n your behalf.
Ah, the lengths I go to!
Holy crap! He’s speaking in tongues! Burn him, burn him!
Just kidding, Matt:D. A thousand congratulations to you - this is a fantastic honor:).
Ava
:eek: No, but damn that would have been cool.
I think my favourite piece of academic Latin ever was one I saw painted on the wall of Salamanca University last year, and which I haven’t yet forgotten:
AKIHITUM ET MICHIKAM
SERENISSIMOS PRINCIPES
IMPERII IAPONICI
UNIVERSITAS LAETA RECIPIT
(The university joyfully received Akihito and Michiko, the most serene prince and princess of the Empire of Japan. Followed by a date in 1984.)
I love that they still have someone doing that in Latin.
But I bet you wouldn’t have been able to keep a straight face!