Fun With Latin

[Reciprocity]

Big Brother is watching you.
Magnus Frater Spectat Te

My dog ate it.
Canis meus id comedit.

I think some people in togas are plotting against me.
Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.

In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags.
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.

When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt

Listen, would you repeat everything you just told me, only this time say it in English?
Heus, modo itera omnia quae mihi nunc nuper narravisti, sed nunc Anglice?

It's not the heat, it's the humidity.
Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.

Do I drink this or stick my fingers in it?
Hocine bibo aut in eum digitos insero?

By that very fact
Ipso facto

I've got to see a man about a dog.
Cum homine de cane debeo congredi.

May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!
Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck is a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

Beam me up, Scotty!
Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!

Your fly is open.
Braccae tuae aperiuntur.

The devil made me do it!
Diabolus fecit, ut id facerem!

The Rolling Stones
Lapides Provolventes

The Grateful Dead
Mortui Grati


If you can read this, you are overeducated
Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes

Read my lips
Labra lege

Stupid is as stupid does
Stultus est sicut stultus facit

As if!
Ut si!

Stupid cow
Vacca foeda

No way
Nullo modo

Read 'em and weep
Lege atque lacrima

Well you can knock me down. Step on my face. Slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you wanna do. But uh-uh honey, lay off of my shoes.
Me humi proruas. Mi calces os. Aut infames nomen animos. Fac quidquid habes in animo, Sed, age, mel, nune parce calceis

Behold the power of cheese
Ecce potestas casei

To boldly go where no man has gone before.
Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit

Seize the beer!
Carpe Cerevisi

I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam

Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe.
Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
Mater tua criceta fuit, et pater tuo redoluit bacarum sambucus

[William769]

1. Self delete.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Veni, Vedi Tee Hee

exit

[RoBear]

3. Sic transit gloria mundi

Gloria was awful sick on the bus Monday.
hehehe

[Gormy Cuss]

4. Illegitimi non carborundum

Don't let the bastards wear you down.
These days, it's a most useful phrase.

I am embarassed the supervisor at my first summer job when I commented on his desk sign with said phrase. Apparently he was unaware of the Latin program at my high school.
:-)