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Need translation into Latin
Posted on 08/17/2002 8:54:36 PM PDT by PLMerite
Any Latin Scholars out there?
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Used to be an unofficial motto of the 11th Special Forces Group (Abn)(Reserve): "Fight, 'Fornicate,' or Die!" I missed my chance to get the t-shirt, and I've forgotten what exactly the Latin phrase was. Any help?
This is my first attempt at making a new thread - if I've messed it up terribly, just delete it.
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08/17/2002 8:54:36 PM PDT
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PLMerite
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To: PLMerite
Here is a Pig Latin translator, if that'll help.
To: PLMerite
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Why Latin? If our boys and girls in uniform are that proud of their philosophy, shouldn't they be happy to proclaim it in the vernacular? Come to think about it, why pussy-foot around with genteel Latinisms like "fornicate" when the Anglo-Saxon is so much more soldier-like? Wasn't publicly-funded sex education supposed to get us past all those euphemisms and hangups? What're the taxpayers getting for their money, anyway?
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08/17/2002 9:12:35 PM PDT
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Romulus
To: Romulus
And your name is Romulus? You crack me up.
To: hole_n_one
FOFL .. Pig Latin ???
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08/17/2002 9:18:34 PM PDT
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Mo1
To: Mo1
You know me.......always trying to help in any way I can.
LOL!
To: farmfriend; Alamo-Girl
Is Alamo Girl going to run another thread. I never accessed it before.
To: PLMerite
Pugnare, Copulare, aut Morere? Something like that?
To: Romulus
why pussy-foot around with genteel Latinisms like "fornicate" when the Anglo-Saxon is so much more soldier-like? "Fight, 'Fornicate,' or Die!"
To: Antoninus
Except that those are infinitives, right? I think we need the imperative mood.
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Just the sentiments you'd expect from a citizen-soldier?
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08/17/2002 9:40:32 PM PDT
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Romulus
To: PLMerite
My guess: Pugna, fornica, aut more!
(Or the plural imperative: Pugnate, fornicate, aut morete!)
I think "copulare" is too nice of a word. Fornication is derived from the Latin word for brothel. I'm sure there's a better dirty word but I can't think of it.
To: PLMerite
fight
1. battuere, dimicare, fendere, pugnare
coition:
1. clinopale, coetus, coitus
connubialis : sexual.
connubium : sexual union.
die
1. mori
2. alea, cubus
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posted on
08/17/2002 9:55:23 PM PDT
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Consort
To: Antoninus
"Pugnare, Copulare, aut Morere? Something like that?"
What I remember the shirt saying (from about 1985) is "Pugilisticum, Fornicatum, et Morti," but from what I've looked up in the online Latin dictionaries, that can't be it. Probably selective memory on my part.
Of course, I'm assuming that they guy who thought the thing up had any of it right to start with...
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08/17/2002 10:03:13 PM PDT
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PLMerite
To: Salvation
Since the individual profile pages are so easy to create - and so many are using them - I haven't been updating the list format. If y'all think the list format is helpful, perhaps I should go for another revision.
To: inertia123
"(Or the plural imperative: Pugnate, fornicate, aut morete!) "
That sounds pretty close to what my aging brain cells remember...is that what Spartacus would have yelled at the approaching Legion?
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08/17/2002 10:04:55 PM PDT
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PLMerite
To: PLMerite
"Vini, Vidi, Vichey"
"I came, I saw, I surrendered."
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08/17/2002 10:05:21 PM PDT
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Ken H
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