# Newsflash! Latin phrases don't make your argument stronger. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 8, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704 "2011-04-08T19:25:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/41 "2011-04-08T21:33:36Z")
_Sigh_ I hate all of yoos. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/42 "2011-04-08T21:37:02Z")
Shouldn’t it be ‘I hate all of y’uns’?? -XT ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/43 "2011-04-08T21:40:20Z")
I thought it was “youse?” ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/44 "2011-04-08T21:40:45Z")
My head hurts. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/45 "2011-04-08T21:44:50Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I thought it was “youse?” I was trying to stress the pronunciation. Maybe “yooz”? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/46 "2011-04-08T21:46:02Z")
That’s more of a North Eastern expression from what I’ve seen…but then North Easterners don’t generally say ‘ya’ll’, so it doesn’t really fit. 😛 -XT ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/47 "2011-04-08T21:50:25Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > That’s more of a North Eastern expression from what I’ve seen…but then North Easterners don’t generally say ‘ya’ll’, so it doesn’t really fit. 😛 > > -XT I’m going to use that. “Ya’ll of youse is driving me crazy!” ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/48 "2011-04-08T22:02:18Z")
And…there’s your initiation! I thought that went pretty well, didn’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/49 "2011-04-08T22:02:41Z")
_Morones Eunt Domus_. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/50 "2011-04-08T22:07:45Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > And…there’s your initiation! > > I thought that went pretty well, didn’t you? Can I have a string of beads or a card or sew-on patch? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/51 "2011-04-08T22:12:28Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > \*\*\*Morones \*_Eunt Domus_. Thank you, Captain Dickus. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/52 "2011-04-08T22:49:29Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Quis custodiet ipsos octopodes? [Mark Norman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Norman_%28marine_biologist%29), perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/53 "2011-04-08T22:52:34Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > “_Sic transit gloria_.” > > “I didn’t know Gloria was sick!” > [@Miller](#): > > And on the bus, no less! In one of his SF stories, Spider Robinson had a scene where two characters were at a spaceport to take a shuttle up to the orbiting industrial complex of Space Induistries Corp. Arriving at the proper gate to board the shuttle, they see a sign reading **S.I.C. TRANSIT** beneath which a graffiti artist had scrawled _Gloria Mundi_ ---
**Author:** ![Rain\_Soaked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@Rain\_Soaked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rain_Soaked)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/54 "2011-04-08T23:58:47Z")
[Romanes Eunt Domus](http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/9.htm)! ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/55 "2011-04-09T00:20:45Z")
I think you’ve committed the _pedicabo et irrumabo_ fallacy. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/56 "2011-04-09T04:07:21Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > Can I have a string of beads or a card or sew-on patch? 😛 That would be cool! There’s no swag on this site, though, unfortunately. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/57 "2011-04-09T04:45:29Z")
[Here you go.](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KXlIxCMioKA/TGVvTjaAg9I/AAAAAAAAAoM/wFnsnJVrkiA/s1600/gold_star-1.jpg) Y’all suck. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/58 "2011-04-09T06:44:47Z")
What makes arguments stronger is: Movens spectaculis vestris. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/59 "2011-04-09T07:32:35Z")
_Totus Latinus in hoc filo asinum testiculos suget._ ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704/60 "2011-04-11T16:09:14Z")
How is MO not a noun? _Argumentum postibus originalis invalidum est. Quod erat demonstratum._ [warning: not real Latin.] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsflash-latin-phrases-dont-make-your-argument-stronger/577704.md?page=4)