Is anyone able to translate these phrases into Latin?
“Great light cannot exist without great darkness”
and, similarly: “Great light does not exist without great darkness.”
I’ve looked these up without success – any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
You try here?I tried to copy/paste answers, but fonts in this reply got all screwy when I tried such (wtf??) Sorry, can’t get 'em all the same now
ETA - seems the word “cannot” is not available in (true) Latin (???). Maybe a variant of it would be better?
“There is no great light without great darkness” would work too. Thanks for the link; I’ll check it when I get home - I’m on my iPhone right now 
Lux magna sine obscurum magnum non potest
Correction on the above. Sine takes the ablative. It should be:
Lux Magana sine obscuro magno non potest
(Literally, “Great light is not able to exist without great darkness.”)
Gratias tibi ago Diogenes!
Your welcome, but I still put a typo in there. There should only be one ‘a’ in “magna.”
Someone is playing dnd, methinks.
Funny how, using the online translator and “magana” it produced:
“Lux Small tents without darkness very not power.”
Do Not Disturb is a very fun game.
This translator is terrible. It’s the same engine I ran across when looking for where the writers got the gibberish Latin used in the season finale of CSI: New York, as I complained about in this thread. There is no reason to ever use an automatic translator to produce Latin, because the result is meaningless to you and it’s meaningless to anyone who knows Latin. You might just as well make shit up e.g.: “Demonus stayus in circlus…”
There are lots of ways to say “cannot” in Latin. Even if this translator is only capable of suggesting one word for one other word, thus eliminating the way you’d normally express “cannot” (nōn possum), it should at least have turned up nequeō.
At least for “up yours” it gives the merely puzzling “sursum vestri” (upward of you (pl)). It seems that somebody out there has actually paid money for a t-shirt that says: I Mount Your Thing.