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Solon 10-13-2008 01:35 PM

Some Contemporary Latin
 
I found the "Are We Rome?" part kind of dumb, but the Latin part has some entertainment value:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12dowd.html

"barracuda borealis" and "lipsticka in porcam." made me chuckle.

BarbaraGordon 10-13-2008 02:27 PM

Roughly translated:
Hardly anyone had heard the name Palin before a few months ago. She arose from her tanning bed in the forests of the land of the eskimo, asking, "who is this traitorous, ominous, perilous, scurrilous friend of 70s traitors and criminals?"
I like it.

MikeWaters 10-13-2008 02:31 PM

I took 2 years of Latin. Pretty worthless.

BarbaraGordon 10-13-2008 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikeWaters (Post 278521)
I took 2 years of Latin. Pretty worthless.

Veritatem dicis.

All-American 10-13-2008 03:03 PM

Beautiful.


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