latin anybody

**2Kamser** · #1 10-23-2009, 03:28 PM

i was just thinking of the latin expression "navigare necesse est" (is it we must sail?) and thought : paper modeling necesse est

maybe a new motto?

**Renaud** · #2 10-23-2009, 03:41 PM

yes, your translation is right (" one must sail ")

**Zakopious** · #3 10-23-2009, 06:20 PM

I took Latin in High School many years ago.

We used to say:
Latin is a dead language, as dead as dead can be.
Latin killed the Romans and now its killing me.

**whulsey** · #4 10-23-2009, 08:20 PM

I actually rather enjoyed it. Wish I remembered more then stray words, but at least it did help me with my English language structure.

Zathros · #5 10-23-2009, 09:13 PM

"O fini mi boni belli dominus forbiscus beni selli all his dominos". The only latin I know.

**Renaud** · #6 10-24-2009, 03:38 AM

It lasted for over six years, from the age of 12 until 18. In the end, I was sick up with, overwhelming translations we did not end up with.

**chicharrero** · #7 10-24-2009, 04:33 AM

Yes, yes Latin is a dead lenguage.
But is alive in thousands expressions, lawyers, for example, use a lot of latin expressions.
A lot of time ago, in the Institute, i thought: Latin lenguage is bored.
Now i think: we are heirs of that great lenguage.

Cheers from Canary Islands.

**SCEtoAUX** · #8 10-24-2009, 06:20 AM

"Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt."

"Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam"

Rock'n'Roll, baby!

**2Kamser** · #9 10-24-2009, 07:53 AM

anybody knows what paper modeling (or papermodeling) would be in latin?

**Renaud** · #10 10-24-2009, 09:22 AM

I guess the Romans would have been interested in papermodels: they don't mind the stuff, on the contrary of the ancient Greeks (their buildings are not solid marble, but most of the time a plating onto other material) and their monuments are duplicated everywhere around the Mediterranean sea, just as papermodels spread over the planet, thanks to the web. A sort of common language, resembling the latin.