Date: November 19, 2004
November 19.2004
By now, everyone knows I like to have fun with language. The history of a word or a phrase - known as its etymology - is fascinating to me.
As I mentioned on Monday in "Joke for Your Day" (if you're not subscribed, by the way, you're missing out on 80% of what I do every week), most of our words descend from their Latin ancestors. .
For this week's Flint Friday Funny, I present some more, ahem, "contemporary" phrases translated (loosely) back into Latin. Enjoy!
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DOMINO VOBISCUM
"The pizza guy is here."
AUDA SIMILARUM AD SEATTLE
"They all sound like Pearl Jam."
SHARPEI DIEM
"Seize the wrinkled dog."
IL GUYUS VERIZONUS ISTE ICKYE
"That Verizon guy gives me the creeps."
PROBOSCIS MUTILATIMUS, UNEMPLOYMI AD INFINITUM
"Are you sure you want to wear that nose ring for the interview?"
MINUTUS CANTORUM, MINUTUS BALORUM, MINUTUS CARBORATA DESCENDUM PANTORUM
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants."
MOTOROLUS INTERRUPTUS
"Hold on, I'm going into a tunnel."
VENI, VIDI, ANTONY SOPRANO
"I came, I saw, I moidered da bum."
REVELARE PECUNIA!
"Show me the money!"
SIC SEMPER TYRANNUS
"Your dinosaur is ill."
NO QUID PRO QUO
"I'm sorry, we have no quid."
CAVEAT HUMANUS SIC TOFU BURRITUS E TOGA
"Beware of the man with a tofu burrito in his toga."
NUNC TUTUS EXITUS COMPUTARUS
"It's now safe to turn off your computer."
ET TU, PLURIBUS UNUM?
"The government is also stabbing me in the back!"
VENI, VIDI, VELCRO
"I came, I saw, I stuck around."
[Ed Peacher's Laughter for a Saturday, with additional material by eHumor and Mark Raymond]
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Everyone have a good and family-filled Thanksgiving, if at all possible, and I'll see you next Friday if I'm not too tryptophan'd out to get off the sofa and write something. Until then, be good to one another.
Mark
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WEB SITE of the WEEK: Going back to www.processlibrary.com, list member Larry W. admonished me that while this is a very helpful site in terms of knowing what your computer is doing in the background, it was not terribly wise of me to advise you to shut down some programs in order to make your computer run faster. Unless you're absolutely certain about what you're doing, you could wind up with more harm than good and risk losing any open files, data, or projects you might be working on if you inadvertently shut down the wrong background routine. Larry's a network administrator, so he knows more about this stuff than I do. I'd take his words to heart.
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QUOTE of the WEEK: "He who does not know foreign languages does not know
anything about his own." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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