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February 25th, 2004

A Little Help for Homunculus [Feb. 25th, 2004|02:47 am]
The Economist has a brief review offering an amusing look at the recently published X-Treme Latin: Unleash Your Inner Gladiator by Henry Beard, founder of National Lampoon:

First prize for devilish translating goes to "wet T-shirt contest" (certamen inter mammosas tunicis madefactis vestitas), closely followed by "sushi bar" (taberna Iaponica pulpamentorum incoctorum marinorum). The finest-resonance award goes to crapulentus sum ("I'm wasted!"). But since Latin is for lovers, special mention should go to a highly topical chat-up line containing the much-maligned future perfect: Nisi mecum concubueris, phobistae vicerint, "If you won't sleep with me, the terrorists will have won."

Read the rest of it at A little help for homunculus.
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