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    FC2 烏 Member Kurulham's Avatar
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    Default Re: AW: The Ancient Swear-Words Challenge!

    Quote 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.
    Last edited by Kurulham; 10-05-2007 at 02:43.
    ...et Boston delenda est.

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    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).
    "He who throws his shield away, lives to fight another day!"

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    Caput capitis = dick head.

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    Quote 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 :

    Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 
    Âlemin bâğızârını sikeyim
    Sünbül ü verd-i hârını sikeyim
    Andelîb-i nizârını sikeyim
    Hâsılı nev-bahârını sikeyim.


    sikeyim is the f-word, while the rest is high poetic language.
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    Default Re: AW: The Ancient Swear-Words Challenge!

    Quote 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!"

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