anyone speak Latin? • Non-Gaming • General Non-gaming • Eurogamer.net

ricouk 26 Aug 2011 22:00:51 32 posts
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Hi people, I'm looking to have this sentence translated into Latin "I just want to
Have a bloody good time!" if there is anyone out there that does I'd much appreciate it, many thanks.

Deleted user 26 August 2011 22:02:31

are you trying to get me to make the tea?

poxymoron 26 Aug 2011 22:04:05 67 posts
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Two sugars

ricouk 26 Aug 2011 22:05:08 32 posts
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Not too sure what you mean?

_Price_ 26 Aug 2011 22:05:34 3,072 posts
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: D Heh.

I don't know about the rest, but 'bloody' is 'sanguine', right?

Dirtbox 26 Aug 2011 22:05:44 92,595 posts
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ricouk 26 Aug 2011 22:15:12 32 posts
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I thought it may be "ego iustus volo habeo a cruentus bonus vicis!" not to sure if the grammar changes somehow due to me pulling the words individually from a Latin dictionary?

neilka 26 Aug 2011 22:18:42 24,021 posts
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Iway ustjay antway otay avehay away oodyblay oodgay imetay

Deleted user 26 August 2011 22:31:28

Ricouk - you can bet on it. Think of how English works.

Immaterial 26 Aug 2011 22:48:23 2,626 posts
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Have you never watched Life of Brian?
Subject object verb.
People called the romanii, they want to go home?

jonsaan 26 Aug 2011 22:51:26 27,052 posts
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These Romans are crazy...

Immaterial 26 Aug 2011 22:52:51 2,626 posts
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jonsaan wrote:

These Romans are crazy...

*

Sid-Nice 26 Aug 2011 23:17:55 15,848 posts
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"EGO iustus volo habeo a cruentus bonus vicis"

ricouk 28 Aug 2011 00:04:48 32 posts
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Sid nice did you just put that into an online translator? As it's the same as the translation I got myself. Need to now if it's still grammatically correct. Anyone?

Deleted user 28 August 2011 00:06:53

I think UncleLou or Otto know latin extremely well. I only did it briefly and it looks about right to me.

mal 28 Aug 2011 01:20:45 29,326 posts
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Well, I suspect 'habeo' as 'to have' is wrong. 'Want to have' is not using the infinitive form, it's using some sort of future tense, although it may be using the gerund, which according to wikipedia is a non-finite form. Meh, grammar.

Also, is isutis just in the sense of 'only' or in the sense of 'right'?

Deleted user 28 August 2011 01:25:24

This is for a tattoo isn't it?

Tiberius_Gracchus 28 Aug 2011 12:53:02 168 posts
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Tantum et religio potuit suadere malorum - a good one think it was Voltaire

BillMurray 28 Aug 2011 13:34:45 9,736 posts
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mowgli wrote:

This is for a tattoo isn't it?

Oh definitely. My first thoughts too.

ricouk 28 Aug 2011 20:45:14 32 posts
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Yes it is for a tattoo,I've had a shit few years, now I'm all about having a bloody good time. I think you can spend your whole life worrying about what's happening with one thing and another but in my fairly long experience it's all a waste of time. enjoy it while you can. That's my motto.

ricouk 7 Sep 2011 22:34:00 32 posts
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Still not got a definitive reply, anyone?

mrpon 7 Sep 2011 22:47:32 37,366 posts
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Ask for Comic Sans font, looks really cool.

neilka 7 Sep 2011 22:58:03 24,021 posts
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Get a tattoo of Jesus firing two AK47s into the air instead

BillMurray 7 Sep 2011 23:10:54 9,736 posts
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neilka wrote:
Get a tattoo of Jesus firing two AK47s into the air instead

.. with a T-Rex swooping down in an F15.

localnotail 7 Sep 2011 23:10:58 23,079 posts
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Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

itamae 7 Sep 2011 23:55:11 10,213 posts
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Ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam!

Not a literal translation, but it captures the spirit of the thought.

Salaman 8 Sep 2011 07:40:41 24,162 posts
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Otto's your man. Don't set a foot into the tattoo parlour until he's checked it.

edit: haha ... I didn't even read the thread. Got it right I see.

Salaman 8 Sep 2011 07:51:57 24,162 posts
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Latin is shit though. Wouldn't you prefer it in Dutch?

Ik wil mij gewoon vet amuseren!

Go with that.

Deleted user 10 September 2011 13:23:44

Salaman wrote:
Otto's your man. Don't set a foot into the tattoo parlour until he's checked it.

edit: haha ... I didn't even read the thread. Got it right I see.

Yeah, there's bound to be a dative somewhere where there should be a locative or something, and then he'll have to get it crossed out because all the people who know Latin perfectly will laugh at him behind his back for his grievous error.