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[anatomiste]

This isn't for school, but I think that the fact it's bothering me so much means that I am in dire need of Academics Anonymous

Comments

[kudzita]

There is! About a Motor Bus. I don't remember the title or anything though.

[anatomiste]

Thanks! I forgot the 'motor' part or I could have googled it:The Motor Bus

What is this that roareth thus?
Can it be a Motor Bus?
Yes, the smell and hideous hum
Indicant Motorem Bum!
Implet in the Corn and High
Terror me Motoris Bi:
Bo Motori clamitabo
Ne Motore caedar a Bo --
Dative be or Ablative
So thou only let us live: --
Whither shall thy victims flee?
Spare us, spare us, Motor Be!
Thus I sang; and still anigh
Came in hordes Motores Bi,
Et complebat omne forum
Copia Motorum Borum.
How shall wretches live like us
Cincti Bis Motoribus?
Domine, defende nos
Contra hos Motores Bos!
-- A. D. Godley (1856-1925)

[globedoc]

Oh, this is BEAUTIFUL!
SO much better than Eumis debus Imis debus!

[montreality]

ha! Thanks for posting this.

[anatomiste]

Hah! I've never seen that one before, but kudzita remembered the one I was thinking of (above).

[solelo]

I think the general name for the poetry form that mixes two or more languages, often Latin or Greek with English, often to be comical (but not always), is "macoronic" or "macoronic verse".

[anatomiste]

Ahh, thank you, that's it.

[anatomiste]

You're right, of course. I can even think of an example.

[elricmelnibone]

There's also an example of a sign found in a frontier town that read:
Toti
emul
esto
"To tie mules to"

[enablingfiction]

I think the poem you want is Paradise Lost. I know because I'm writing most of my dissertation on it.

[anatomiste]

*curls up and dies*

[poldy]

What? Are you joking?