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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.

1 posted on 08/17/2002 8:54:36 PM PDT by PLMerite
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To: PLMerite
Try this
2 posted on 08/17/2002 8:58:33 PM PDT by martin_fierro
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To: PLMerite
Or these
3 posted on 08/17/2002 9:04:35 PM PDT by martin_fierro
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To: PLMerite
Here is a Pig Latin translator, if that'll help.
4 posted on 08/17/2002 9:07:34 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: PLMerite
Freeper profiles
5 posted on 08/17/2002 9:07:45 PM PDT by farmfriend
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To: PLMerite
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?
6 posted on 08/17/2002 9:12:35 PM PDT by Romulus
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And your name is Romulus? You crack me up.
7 posted on 08/17/2002 9:17:24 PM PDT by inertia123
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FOFL .. Pig Latin ???
8 posted on 08/17/2002 9:18:34 PM PDT by Mo1
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You know me.......always trying to help in any way I can.

LOL!

9 posted on 08/17/2002 9:23:55 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: farmfriend; Alamo-Girl
Is Alamo Girl going to run another thread. I never accessed it before.
10 posted on 08/17/2002 9:27:42 PM PDT by Salvation
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To: PLMerite
Pugnare, Copulare, aut Morere? Something like that?
11 posted on 08/17/2002 9:29:01 PM PDT by Antoninus
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why pussy-foot around with genteel Latinisms like "fornicate" when the Anglo-Saxon is so much more soldier-like?

"Fight, 'Fornicate,' or Die!"

12 posted on 08/17/2002 9:36:39 PM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
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To: Antoninus
Except that those are infinitives, right? I think we need the imperative mood.
13 posted on 08/17/2002 9:39:49 PM PDT by inertia123
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Just the sentiments you'd expect from a citizen-soldier?
14 posted on 08/17/2002 9:40:32 PM PDT by Romulus
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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.
15 posted on 08/17/2002 9:54:02 PM PDT by inertia123
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fight
1. battuere, dimicare, fendere, pugnare

coition:
1. clinopale, coetus, coitus

connubialis : sexual.
connubium : sexual union.

die
1. mori
2. alea, cubus

16 posted on 08/17/2002 9:55:23 PM PDT by Consort
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"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...



17 posted on 08/17/2002 10:03:13 PM PDT by PLMerite
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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.
18 posted on 08/17/2002 10:03:32 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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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?
19 posted on 08/17/2002 10:04:55 PM PDT by PLMerite
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"Vini, Vidi, Vichey"

"I came, I saw, I surrendered."

20 posted on 08/17/2002 10:05:21 PM PDT by Ken H
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