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'' |
9 | |
10 | ->''"Okay, it's in Latin, so don't laugh. It's supposed to sound like this."'' |
11 | -->-- '''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''' |
12 | |
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. |
15 | |
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''' |
21 | |
22 | |
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]] |
25 | |
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'' |
34 | |
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'' |
37 | |
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'' |
40 | |
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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