Tag Archives: bad Latin

Bad jewelry Latin

Posted on March 28, 2009 by Sarah

A Jes­sica Kagan Cush­man bracelet mis­quotes Cicero. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Bad movie Latin!

Posted on March 28, 2009 by Dennis

This is one is really, really bad. I was brows­ing around at some well-known blogs to see what sorts of use­ful things I might include here, and as I scanned the rather spar­tan Instapun­dit I came across this unfa­mil­iar and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Bad comic Latin

Posted on July 20, 2008 by Dennis

This came through on one of the list­servs: This is some of the worst bad Latin we’ve seen. “My infancy … because … my trav­el­ing money … I seek … O Romus! … ???” Try some­thing like this: ACADEMIAE ROMANAE ADSVNT MEI PVER … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Bad tattoo Latin!

Posted on June 28, 2008 by Dennis

Okay, this one actu­ally makes me feel bad. I hate the thought that some well-meaning Marines have (semi-)permanently scarred them­selves with some­thing non­sen­si­cal: It’s sup­posed to say, “Father and Son: Broth­ers For­ever.” Of course it really says “Father and Growth: … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Dictionarese and the Death of Latin

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Dennis

As I wrote to the col­league who for­warded a link to Harry Mount’s op-ed piece in the NYT on Latin, this is painfully unread­able and barely Latin, which defeats for the most part its author’s argu­ment. Aside from the count­less … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Politicos and Latin Mottos

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Dennis

Back to Scot­land we go for a bit of bad Latin from Par­lia­men­tar­ian and Bea­t­les fan Alis­tair Dar­ling: On BBC Radio 4’s Today pro­gramme, Mr Dar­ling reeled off Loretto School’s motto — “Spar­tan nac­tus est, hanc exorna” — and said: … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Is nothing sacred?

Posted on May 15, 2006 by Dennis

A reader has e-mailed to ask about the cor­rect Latin trans­la­tion of the phrase ‘is noth­ing sacred?’, made famous in Wes Anderson’s clas­sic Rush­more as ‘nihilo sanc­tum estne?’ The prob­lem with that trans­la­tion was dis­cussed here pre­vi­ously, but I thought I’d … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Bad Movie Latin!

Posted on October 12, 2004 by Dennis

I just watched the Pun­isher with my dad on his sweet new widescreen hi-def TV, and noticed an odd bit of Latin. The main char­ac­ter talks about his mil­i­tary train­ing and says he was told repeat­edly sic vis pacem para bel­lum: … Con­tinue read­ing →

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