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Handy Latin Phrases to Impress Your Friends
Over in the PIT lately, there have been a lot of showoffs dropping Latin phrases all over the place just to make Protestants and people who never took Latin feel inferior. But you don’t have to feel inferior anymore because I am here to help. In my never-ending efforts to make everyone’s lives happier, I have compiled a handy list of common Latin phrases with their English translations. Now you, too can attend any cocktail party or fancy event with confidence!
<ahem, ahem> Class, let’s begin:
Persona non grata……..Ungrateful or rude person
Carpe Diem…………………Let’s go fishing.
Ad nauseam……………….That commercial makes me sick.
Ad infinitum………………That commercial goes on forever.
In vino veritas…………….There’s a worm in my wine (useful in Mexico).
Tabula rasa…………………My tablet is racist.
De facto……………………….True dat!
Sic…………………………………Ill. (duh)
Ex libris………………………..Book you have already read
RightAngles delenda est……..RightAngles is delectable.
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You’re welcome.
Published in Humor
Erade meum historia computatrum.
I thought carpe diem was a warning: keep complaining and you die. No?
Homo erectus — Gay woodie
Sic semper ioculatoribus.
Ricocheters, where is this “Pit” of which you speak? Are only big shots allowed in?
Kent
http://ricochet.com/474558/pit-14-a-youre-getting-on-my-last-nerve/comment-page-983/#comment-4109204
Anyone is welcome to join. Whether you are welcome to stay is up to you.
Omissa spe qui intrant Lacum.
Only Ricochetti are allowed in the PIT . . .
Anybody can be in the PIT. The ability to stay is determined by your ability to tolerate nonsense.
Oh, don’t get @misthiocracy started on what we should be called again.
Mr. Ricocheter, it sounds like one of those clubs that I wouldn’t join if they would stoop so low as to let in people like me.
Kent
Only if you pay extra.
No, that’s Carpe Carp
And your ability to keep up with a couple hundred comments per day.
Like Linda Ronstadt
Ricochetori
Mr. Male, Wha?
Kent
De gustibus non est disputandum
“You can’t deny it’s windy.”
Non compos mentis.
“Don’t compost the mental patients.”
It’s a PIT thing, Kent.
And then the murders began.
Gave up on the French and went to Latin? I thought you were advocating Ricochetoisie?
In loco parentis.
“Driving parents crazy.”
That’s so weird. I always thought that one meant:
“Don’t camp next to the asylum.”
Which is why I never bothered.
But they’re worth every moment with gems falling from the sky and rivers of molten gold springing from the ground.
Based on my recent research, about 270/ day, although the weekends pull down the average.
Then there’s Vinegar Joe Stillwell’s motto: Illegitimi non carborundum.
“Carbon sequestration doesn’t work.”
PIT metrics.
ad hoc – secondary pawn transactions
ad lib – admission letter to an Ivy school
alter ego – secondary schizophrenic personna
bona fide – constant male state ages 13-15
carpe diem – when the fish mysteriously die in your neighbor’s garden pond
caveat – a tooth crevasse prone to cavities
consensus – English for schadenfruede
de facto – what follows “jus…”
de jure – people selected to determine one’s guilt
ergo – awkward pauses from a bad public speaker
excelsior – expert with Excel
mea culpa – it’s my fault
per capita – to behead
per diem – to die
per se – to see
verbatim – things that can both be bait and food like clams
vice versa –when you use intoxication as a defense strategy but your wife doesn’t buy it