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treefern

It's not a dead language! Harry Potter!

Jan 23, 2010 11:11

On Thursday I bought three Latin books. 'Latin Matters' by Simon James, a lovely little green cloth bound book that includes lists of The Beatles songs translated into Latin (I want to hold your hand = tui manum tenere volo; a hard day's night = longi diei nox') and also lists all the Latin jokes in the Asterix comics.

I also bought the MUCH ruder ( Read more... )

latin, sydney, geek girl

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Quidquid latine dictum sit altum widitur sauced_again January 23 2010, 02:25:55 UTC

I believe you can also get Winnie the Pooh in Latin.

Re: Quidquid latine dictum sit altum widitur vayshti January 23 2010, 02:34:03 UTC

EGO animadverto quis vos did illic!

Re: Quidquid latine dictum sit altum widitur treefern January 23 2010, 03:03:18 UTC

Widitur! Snappy 'I saw that' comebacks! You two utterly blow me away. Utterly. Completely. I'm so happy right now. I'm going to walk around for the rest of the day in a delighted haze of geeky infatuation.

nanogirl08 January 24 2010, 11:55:30 UTC

I loved "Fieri potest ut caput tuum displodatur".

And the witty reparte was awe-inspiring!

treefern January 24 2010, 22:15:46 UTC

Wasn't it just? I was seriously awestruck by those two!