User:Jondel/one
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Sure, I speak a little Latin.
Sane, paululum linguae Latinae dico.
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I picked it up here and there. Really, Latin isn't all that hard.
Id legi modo hic modo illic. Vero, Latine loqui non est difficilissimum.
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It looks like a tricky language, but you'll get the hang of it pretty quickly.
Lingua speciem involutam praebet, sed sat cito eam comprehendes.
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And remember, there aren't any Romans around to correct your pronunciation.
Atque memento, nulli adsunt Romanorum qui locutionem tuam corrigant.
Signs of the times ...
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BEWARE OF DOG
CAVE CANEM
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DO NOT DISTURB
NOLI PERTURBARE
KEEP OUT
NOLI INTRARE
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THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING
TIBI GRATIAS AGIMUS QUOD NIHIL FUMAS
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HONK IF YOU SPEAK LATIN
SONA SI LATINE LOQUERIS
Things you may say a lot ...
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There goes by bleeper!
Tintinnuntius meus sonat!
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Garbage in, garbage out.
Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum.
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Here today, gone tomorrow.
Hodie adsit, cras absit.
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Seen one, seem them all.
Uno viso, omnia visa sunt.
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What goes around, comes around.
Id quot circumiret, circumveniat.
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God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!
Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!
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I've got to see a man about a dog.
Cum homine de cane debeo congredi.
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I think that Elvis is still alive.
Credo Elvem ipsum etiam vivere.
Handy catch phrases
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Have a nice day.
Die dulci fruimini.
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No way.
Nullo modo.
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Read my lips ...
Labra lege ...
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Accidentally on purpose.
Casu consulto.
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Just do it
Modo fac
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Bah! Humbug!
Phy! Fabulae!
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
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Read 'em and weep.
Lege atque lacrima.
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I have nothing to declare.
Nihil declaro.
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It was that way when I got here.
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
Medical conditions ...
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Impedimentum Memoriae
A mental block that makes it hard to remember names.
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Inopia Celeritatis
A mild dyslexia that makes it impossible to arrive on time.
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Morbus Irrigationis
A rare disease aggravated by watering friends' plants.
A few more essential phrases ...
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Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert.
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May barbarians invade your personal space!
Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!
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May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!
Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
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Don't let the bastards wear you down.
Noli nothis permittere te terere.
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Go ahead. Make my day.
Age. Fac ut gaudeam.
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck is a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
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Beam me up, Scotty!
Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!
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Who was that masked man?
Quis fuit ille personatus?
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Now this isn't carved in stone ...
Nunc hoc in marmore non est incisum ...
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Shark! Shark!
Pistrix! Pistrix!
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Listen, would you repeat everything you just told me, only this time say it in English?
Heu, modo itera omnia quae mihi nunc nuper narravisti, sed nunc Anglice?
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You charge how much an hour?
Quantum in ura hora imputas?
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I'd like to buy some condoms.
Volo comparare nonnulla tegumembra.
Don't forget the Seven Dwarfs!
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Fatuus
Dopey
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Medicullus
Doc
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Severus
Grumpy
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Beatus
Happy
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Somniculosus
Sleepy
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Verecundus
Bashful
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Sternuens
Sneezy
In use today ...
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