The Ancient Swear-Words Challenge!

**EasternScourge** · 10-05-2007, 02:07

Now,theres only one thing left to do.Get this into Latin:

"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries."

Great job with all these insults.I might try to use them sometime.

**Tarkus** · 10-05-2007, 02:19

Awesome stuff indeed, oudysseos...I never thought I would log on to this forum tonight and learn how to say I'm gonna rip off your head and crap down your neck in Latin.

I love this community...

**Kurulham** · 10-05-2007, 02:41

Originally Posted by EasternScourge

Now,theres only one thing left to do.Get this into Latin:

"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries."

Great job with all these insults.I might try to use them sometime.

Tua mater mus erat, et tuus pater similiter maiobacarum oluit.

I can't believe I still remember that. We were really, REALLY bored in Latin class one day... must have been almost ten years ago now. We actually translated the whole sketch... Though I should note that it's actually saying "your mother was a mouse" as we couldn't find a word for hamster.

The next year, when we did Catullus, one of the students came in with an orange book entitled "The Latin Sexual Vocabulary" and we had a great deal of fun.

Another fun one: Tuus senex etiam est.

**Rhipsaspis** · 10-05-2007, 02:53

For the Latin Poem, it's on Wiki'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16
(If I shouldn't have posted this then I do apologise, please delete the think).

**Slim_Ghost** · 10-05-2007, 02:54

Caput capitis = dick head.

**Mouzafphaerre** · 10-05-2007, 05:14

Originally Posted by Rhipsaspis

For the Latin Poem, it's on Wiki'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16
(If I shouldn't have posted this then I do apologise, please delete the think).

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I love the links in the translation!

Totally anachronic but the Catullus reference makes it somewhat on topic I believe. Neyzen Tevfik (d. 1958) was a musician, poet and over all a satyr. Here's only the opening stanza of his famous curse-in-verse, "Sahne-i Ömrümden Nefs-i Emmâreme Hitâbım", which may even buy me warning points

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Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

sikeyim is the f-word, while the rest is high poetic language.
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**Maeran** · 10-05-2007, 16:48

Originally Posted by Kurulham

Tua mater mus erat, et tuus pater similiter maiobacarum oluit.

I can't believe I still remember that. We were really, REALLY bored in Latin class one day... must have been almost ten years ago now. We actually translated the whole sketch... Though I should note that it's actually saying "your mother was a mouse" as we couldn't find a word for hamster.

Cricetus is the generic name for the European hamster. I'd make a reasonable guess that this is Latin.

When I was looking at the "What do units say?" thread, I did notice that 'tuas matres!' was there as a taunt. Though personally I doubt Legionaries shouted "yo' mommas!"