Saturday, May 25, 2013

Latin for All Occasions

I couldn't resist passing this along. It seems that we Redneck Gun-Totin' Country Mice out here in rural Mississippi are smarter than David Cameron, the British Prime Minister. Steyn:
Appearing on David Letterman’s show a while back, Cameron was unable to translate into English the words “Magna Carta,” which has quite a bit to do with that “British way of life” he’s so keen on. 
Hey, David! Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant, you idiot!

Oh. Wait. That's already happened.  

[Latin translation from Latin for All Occasions by Henry Beard, Villard Books, New York, 1990, p65, "Useful curses"]


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