Line #23 Quotes/GratuitousLatin


1	->''You must say things\
2	Like micturate, defecate, intercourse\
3	You can't say things\
4	Like pissing and shitting and fuck\
5	Although they're the same\
6	Although it's a pain\
7	You've got to use the Latin name''
8	-->--''Music/TheAmateurTransplants'', ''Dorsal Horn Concerto''
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10	->''"Okay, it's in Latin, so don't laugh. It's supposed to sound like this."''
11	-->-- '''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''
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13	->''"Centaurum iacio!"''[[labelnote:Lat.]]"I throw the Centaur".[[/labelnote]]
14	--> --'''[[MartyStu Erik Servint]]''', in ''[[WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum Susan's Sorcerer]]'', magically throwing a disguised Agent against a large cauldron.
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16	->''Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo,\
17	Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi,\
18	qui me ex versiculis meis putastis,\
19	quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum.''[[labelnote:Lat.]]"I will assfuck and skullfuck you, you bottom Aurelius and you faggot Furius! You who think because my poems are sentimental, that I have no shame.'' Latin ClusterFBomb-ing at its finest.[[/labelnote]]
20	--> --'''Gaius Valerius Catullus'''
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23	%%->"Ten years ago, if you had mentioned the words "Manei Domini" to anyone, you could expect either a confused head-tilt reaction or a correction for your bad Latin."\
24	%%-- on the [[KnightTemplar Word of Blake]]'s [[SuperSoldier Manei Domini]] in ''Franchise/BattleTech'' after the organization went [[MoralEventHorizon off the ]][[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope deep end]]
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26	->'''Agatín:''' ''"You are going to make that lady and that knight think I am a crook."''\
27	'''Fortún Paja:''' ''"That lady and that knight don't care by the likes of you, dear Agatín."''\
28	'''Agatín:''' ''"Pulvis et umbra sumus (We are dust and shadows)."''\
29	'''Fortún Paja:''' ''"I'm warning you: I don't know a word of Greek."''\
30	'''Agatín:''' ''"Vita est brevis (Life is short)."''\
31	'''Fortún Paja:''' ''""''\
32	'''Agatín:''' ''"I mean: 'We are nothing'."''
33	-->-- ''Literature/TheSwordOfSaintFerdinand''
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35	->Sometimes you're queueing at a petrol station at 3:00A.M. in the morning, and there's a line of murderers behind you, and you turn around and go, ''"Amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant!"'' and they go, ''"Fuck, he knows Latin! He knows a dead language! Run!"''
36	-->-- '''Creator/EddieIzzard''', ''Definite Article''
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38	-> ''"And the Romans did all this with a language that we know from school is silly. It's a silly billy language. It has a nominative, a vocative, accusative, a genitive, a dative and ablative-- fuck off!''"
39	-->-- '''Creator/EddieIzzard''', ''Stripped''
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41	->'''Jim Hacker''': Look at Latin, hardly anybody uses that nowadays.
42	->'''Sir Humphrey Appleby''': Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis. [[labelnote:Lat.]]Times are changed; we also are changed with them.[[/labelnote]]
43	->'''Hacker''': ...what?
44	->'''Humphrey''': Times change, and we change with the times.
45	->'''Hacker''': Precisely.
46	->'''Humphrey''': Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.[[labelnote:Lat.]]If you had been silent, you would have remained a philosopher.[[/labelnote]]
47	->'''Hacker''': What does that mean?
48	->'''Humphrey''': If you'd kept your mouth shut we might have thought you were clever.

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