# Looking for loyal latin language lovers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-loyal-latin-language-lovers/23393>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 24, 2000, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-loyal-latin-language-lovers/23393 "2000-06-24T07:50:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![wolfseyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/97f17d/32.png) [@wolfseyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfseyn)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-loyal-latin-language-lovers/23393/1 "2000-06-24T07:50:12Z")

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I just joined the rest of the crowd and made myself a bandwidth eating sig(nature)…  
the problem is I don’t speak latin and as you can see by my sig(nature) it does contain a great deal of the unspoken language.

So, at the risk of sounding like a 3 year old,  
what does it say, what does it say?!?!?!

If I am correct it means “whatever said in Latin sound profound”  
If I am not correct I hope I’m not insulting your mother.

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**Author:** ![wolfseyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/97f17d/32.png) [@wolfseyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfseyn)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-loyal-latin-language-lovers/23393/2 "2000-06-24T07:52:02Z")

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Does it show up here?

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**Author:** ![wolfseyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/97f17d/32.png) [@wolfseyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfseyn)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-loyal-latin-language-lovers/23393/3 "2000-06-24T07:53:40Z")

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Here’s my (part of) sig(nature)

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

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**Author:** ![SDP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SDP)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-loyal-latin-language-lovers/23393/4 "2000-06-24T14:19:18Z")

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“Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.”

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2000, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-loyal-latin-language-lovers/23393/5 "2000-06-24T20:32:56Z")

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I know no more Latin than any ex-altar boy would need to, but My wife gave me a book [_How to Insult Abuse & Insinuate in Classical Latin_](http://www.british-bookshop.com/britishbooks/2239.html) for Christmas once. She said I needed to broaden myself and learn another language.

I’ve been meaning to use it start a thread in the Pit where I insult people in the words of the Masters. Sound like fun?

Made a personal motto once, with help from Spanish-speaking wife (“Spanish is just Vulgate Latin 2000 years later”) and poor-Latin-student brother (“They required it for law school”).

BONUM BESTANTE BONARUM BESTANTIMUS EST. Good enough is good enough. Words an OCD person needs to take to heart or NOTHING gets done.