Comments on: Responsum Aucili

By: Latina Amor

Latina Amor — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:44:59 +0000

Blake,
acta est fabula plaudite…ab uno disce omnes!

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:37:36 +0000

Send the photos to the address here and I'll see whether I look goofy enough for them to be posted on the Internet. :-)

By: Sastra

Sastra — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:32:08 +0000

(By the way, do you have the photos from wandering around the last day of TAM 6?)

Hi — sorry this is out of place, but I don’t have your email and thought you’d be more likely to see my response here than you would on Pharyngula.

Yes, I have about 7 photos which include you, and if you send me your email I can forward them on. I think the best of the bunch is one of you, me, and PZ Myers. I briefly mentioned its existence on another thread, someone asked if it could be posted, and PZ said in comments that he would if I sent it to him.

I thought I’d check with you first, though, as some people don’t want their visual “identity” revealed to the internet masses. Forgot about it then when the Crackergate exploded.

Nice Latin, by the way. I think.

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:41:28 +0000

Really? Well, let’s see:

“Cuique fumus cannabis hauriendum est.”

(Best when read singsong in a Bob Dylan voice.)

By: Kimpatsu

Kimpatsu — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:08:55 +0000

quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

By: Sili

Sili — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:48:19 +0000

Even your Latin is better than mine. I can only decipher the simplest bons mots.

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:19:38 +0000

Ha. Thus, or should I say ergo, in trying to make a word which means “martyr,” we have hit upon one which parses out to “ballsy.”

By: John Armstrong

John Armstrong — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:12:42 +0000

Blake: you mean “testis” = “oysters”? ;)

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:27:11 +0000

We can't live his life for him, can we? I don't think he'd try to pull a Salman Rushdie to boost his book sales. (Hey, does losing a paperback copy of an English translation of the Koran which I was given for free count as "desecration"? If so, I'm in trou-ble.) My trusty paperback dictionary has martyr (genitive martyris) as a perfectly good Latin word. Late Latin appears to be the route by which the Greek martys entered Old English.

By: Scott Hatfield

Scott Hatfield — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:59:08 +0000

Yeah, well, I was trying to come up with a Latin version of the Greek ‘martys’, or martyr. All kidding aside, PZ is not playing with trifles, suggesting he might desecrate a Koran. Not to give a toad like Bill Donohue a free pass for his accurately-described ‘fatwa envy’, but there are millions of Muslims around the world for whom such an act might well lead to the pronouncement of a death sentence.

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:20:46 +0000

For those playing at home, Testis = ablative plural of testa, shellfish.

By: Scott Hatfield, OM

Scott Hatfield, OM — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:07:43 +0000

That didn’t scan so well. Let me try again:

Haud sollicitudo troll sum Ego , tamen etiamnunc timidus quis ut nostrum mutuus amicus vires venio. Narro may nos PZ Testis quinymo quam PZ Myers , propter a fragor bardus.

By: Scott Hatfield, OM

Scott Hatfield, OM — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:01:34 +0000

A sollicitudo troll vos vires meus ego dico , tamen repletus per vereor ego sum , si sors nocens of Paul Zachary Testis exsisto notus , ut per a fragor iuguolo.

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:35:54 +0000

For extra bonus irony, where does the saying “it was Greek to me” come from? (-;

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:16:45 +0000

That’s greek to me…

By: Calladus

Calladus — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:54:01 +0000

I’m horrified to discover that the Babelfish translator doesn’t have a “Latin to English” setting!