Heres the Friday afternoon silly question.
"Sic hoc adfixumin obice legere potes,et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades"
Can anyone translate without reading the Telegraph?
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Keep your distance, colloquially.
Hawkeye
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Stranger in a strange land
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Sorry - Hawkeye , strict translation required take extra Latin homework. Must try harder!
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Come on or you'll all be in detention.....
Oh all right then - I have to admit that the strict translation was certainly beyond my latin O level from 40+ years ago .
See todays letters in the Telegraph.The original was spotted on a bumper in Paris.
" If you can read this , you are both very well educated and nuch too close"
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I obviously didn't remember my spelling either. 'For nuch read much'
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I could read it, I just couldn't understand it.
I think that's a non sequitur.
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Well I used to think that 'sic * transit * gloria mundi' meant that Gloria was ill in the back of the van the other day.
* Motoring Link
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"non sequitur."
I'm fed up with gardening - you can borrow mine.
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I think Wogan translated it this morning as "If you can read this not only are you well educated you are too close"
I assume it's the same thing I've forgotten what Latin I learned a long time ago.
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Ah! Latin!
I assume that no-one in the BR will need me to translate "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses" for them...
(especially if they remember Yes Minister)
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The barbarians are at the gate.
Make sure you have your ablative, accusative, vocative cases well understood, not to mention your grasp of the pluperfect and subjunctive.
Then go to yur room and ait for me.
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Yes, Sir! Just as soon as I've superglued this bumper sticker across my buttocks. Decus et tutamen est.
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It does indeed mean: If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated and much too close (although the latin is slightly misspelt)
Take a look at www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/omnibus.html
for other "Fun Latin" phrases.
Mods, I hope its alright to post the link?
Ain't Google wonderful?
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Link is fine, subject matter is swaying WAY off motoring (although I like the old one about Gloria being unwell).
Detention in the form of a locked thread if this doesn't get back on motoring in 3....2....1....
No Do$h - Alfa-driving Backroom Moderator
mailto:moderators@honestjohn.co.uk
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