Amicus Veritas

[Byron In Exile]

This place needs some fucking nachos.

I haven't finished my roses yet, and you're all about dessert.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Byron, I didn't want to read the links for the translation ...

Wait a second... "links for the translation"?

What links?

 

[Sonny Limatina]

This place needs some fucking nachos.

Wrong kind of latin.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Wrong kind of latin.

The Greeks invented nachos.

 

[Sonny Limatina]

The Greeks invented nachos.

I was going to mention that Nachos was the god of Foods to Eat During Football games, but I didn't want to appear knowledgeable.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I was going to mention that Nachos was the god of Foods to Eat During Football games, but I didn't want to appear knowledgeable.

That was the mistake the Greeks made: not wanting to appear knowledgeable. It led them to hide their recipe for ναχος so that it was lost to the world until the Germans rediscovered it during their WWII occupation of Greece. Fortunately, it was recovered by the Allies before the Russians could get their grubby little red hands on it, and after the war it was sent to Mexico for safekeeping until it could be reintroduced to America to serve as a popular half-time snack. Not many people know about this, of course, for obvious reasons.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Tenahpu tasiwóo paapi

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[rosco rathbone]

latin poseur caned by schoolmaster...harsh realm!

 

[Chance_G]

Good job, that's pretty damn close! And you must have a large dictionary because nicticorax is Late Latin.

I speak like a night-owl in its abode. Amicus speaks like a fool.
But I don't know in what way you speak.

Thanks, but there are so many years of rust. Obviously, I'm out of my league when you can tell what reference I use. It's my old high school dictionary with brittle pages. I had to Google nictocorax.

 

[Chance_G]

Wait a second... "links for the translation"?

What links?

I assumed the links in Amicus' post #6 were an attempt at a translation of your Latin but when I clicked them I started to read some tome so I quit. I never could quite figure out what he was trying to say.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I love this thread!

Shades of Monty Python's "The Life of Brian"! The scene where the Centurion is making the vandal correct the grammar in his graffiti...

The roses are in the mail, dozens of them. Try not to enjoy the thorns too much. 8)

Thanks! That's one of the most tremendously amusing parts of the film. I was totally hearing John Cleese while talking to Amicus: "What's this, then? 'People called Romanes they go the house'??" There are two mistakes, though, right at the end. After changing the "Romanes" to "Romani" and "eunt" to "ite," the dialogue goes—

Centurion: "Domus"? Nominative? "Go home," this is motion towards, isn't it, boy?
Brian: Dative?
Centurion draws his sword and holds it to Brian's throat
Brian: Ahh! No, ablative, ablative, sir! No, the accusative, accusative, ah, domum, sir!
Centurion: Except that "domus" takes the...?
Brian: The locative, sir!
Centurion: Which is?
Brian: "Domum!"
Centurion: "Domum..."
He strikes out "domus" and writes "domum"


It ends up as "Romani ite domum," which is correct, but the mistakes in the dialog are:

1) The locative of domus is domi.

2) The proper case for domus is the accusative, not the locative.

The locative signifies a place "at which," the accusative a place "to which," and the ablative a place "from which." So the accusative is needed as the object of "ite" in this case.

Domum ierunt — they went home
Domo ierunt — they went from home
Domi fuerunt — they were at home

 

[patient1]

To Byron-

For each of the LOLs in this thread.

For general past performance regarding humor.


For the Brandenburg Concerti thread.

Form that illegal display of your Mad Skillz in the Gusty Wind proof - one for settling the argument, the other for alerting me how vulnerable I am on the web.

 

[Ishmael]

I'm half hip-hop to the White Pride thing, but Jesus is just alright with me...

LMAO

Ishmael

 

[amicus]

I find his syncophantic little *grins* and such particularly annoying. You otoh have earned at least a dozen s in my book.

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One must assume you meant sycophantic; when you attempt to insult you should at least use spell check, silly.

Sycophantic

Amicus is a latin word that means friends or comrades.

In Roman mythology, Veritas, meaning truth, was the goddess of truth, a daughter of Saturn and the mother of Virtue.

Now...I know you are really good people and would address the content of my Posts if you were capable.

But since you are not...you deal in trivialities...what else is new around here?

AMICUS VERITAS!

 

[Sonny Limatina]

~~~

One must assume you meant sycophantic; when you attempt to insult you should at least use spell check, silly.



Now...I know you are really good people and would address the content of my Posts if you were capable.

But since you are not...you deal in trivialities...what else is new around here?

AMICUS VERITAS!

If there's content in your posts, it's outnumbered.

 

[amicus]

If there's content in your posts, it's outnumbered.[/QUOTE]

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Liberals, Progressives, Socialists, whateverthehell you call yourself, are sensory critters...you love to smell, taste, and feel, but when it comes to thinking, you simply don't possess the equipment to deal with it.

Like women, and pussies in general, thas fine, as long as you stay in your place, but wander into a rational discussion and you are totally lost.

No surprise to anyone....the only amusement is that you claim to have a mind.

NOT!

Amicus Veritas

 

[lookingfor_ruth]

*gouys* (in a bad fake Dutch accent)

.....

 

[kbate]

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:emoticon:


cold day in hell when you see me post a rose.

 

[Saint Peter]

.
:emoticon:


cold day in hell when you see me post a rose.

Come on. Give us a rose.

It will make you feel warm and bubbly inside.

 

[kbate]

Come on. Give us a rose.

It will make you feel warm and bubbly inside.

No it won't.

 

[Saint Peter]

No it won't.

Maybe you could start slow with a or something.

 

[kbate]

Maybe you could start slow with a or something.

:emotifrog:

didn't work.

Isn't there a hockey match you should be watching?

 

[Saint Peter]

:emotifrog:

didn't work.

Isn't there a hockey match you should be watching?

Down to two series and then The Big One.

Potentially only 19 games left this season.

Makes me sad.

 

[kbate]

Down to two series and then The Big One.

Potentially only 19 games left this season.

Makes me sad.

Educate me, are the Washington Caps still in it?

 

[Saint Peter]

Educate me, are the Washington Caps still in it?

Sorry, no.