"I'll Tell Your Fortune but the Words Don't Rhyme..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Latin is a really, really, really stupid language. Why am I taking it?

...because it has words like sandapila*, that's why. But it's still a stupid language.

*"cheap coffin"

Comments

[ren-aleria.livejournal.com]

You take Latin for the next time Julius Cesar is in town!! Oh, wait...

[bewareofitalics]

That is a great word. It makes me want to find other pretty-sounding words that mean really weird things and then turn them all into character names.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

XD XD XD Shut uuuuuuuuup.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

There are tonnes of them in Latin, and I do it all the time. XD

[bewareofitalics]

I think this calls for examples. :D

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

XD Just a sec. The only one I know off the top of my head is Lolligo.

[bewareofitalics]

*sits like Patience on a monument...!*

[rhombal.livejournal.com]

If Latin is a stupid language (I think it's pretty, but that's because the most exposure I get to it is through Supernatural, where very pretty boys are reciting it to exorcism demons), then Chinese must just be a silly one. Or at least one that's difficult to translate into English, because my dad once translated one of Hamlet's many soliloquies as "I can't make up my mind! But wait--! Is that death I see before me--?", or something else that made me crack up. And then he called Hamlet psychic. And a princess. ... [/random story of the evening]

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*laughs!*

Satelles (bodyguard)
Machinari (crane operator)
Erici (hedgehog/beam with iron spikes)
Gypsum (plaster of Paris)
Laena (lined coat)
Merenda (lunch/snack)
Paetulus (slightly squint-eyed)
Phalerica (fiery missle)
Repotia (a second round of drinks)
Sinape (white mustard)

&c.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Heee. (Well, see, those pretty boys are not declining jussive clauses using indirect commands with ut and ne. That makes them infinitely preferable, naturally.) I certainly believe it. Also--XD Your dad is awesome.

[bewareofitalics]

Eeee. Very cool! I always thought that the Hebrew words Glida (ice cream) and Oogah (cake) would make good names, too... *g*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Glida is v. pretty! Oogah would make a good pet name, though.

[bewareofitalics]

Oo, oo, and if you had, say, a whole litter of kittens, you could call them Oogiyot! Which means "cookies," but I think it's really just the plural of "Oogah."

...on second thought, kitten cookies would be kinda icky.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

>:D >:D >:D KITTEN COOOOOOOKIES.

[bewareofitalics]

They'd leave fur in your teeth!

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

Latin actually has a word for Cheap Coffin? That is the most Sado-Masochistic language i have ever heard of.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I'd use their bones to pick it out?

...ick.

[bewareofitalics]

...

...well, I suppose it would be worth it if by eating them you absorbed their powers of seeing in the dark and cuteness...

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

As listed above to Lillie, it has a lot of words for v. random things. Personally I'm fond of sicilicissito, -are, 'to act like a Sicilian'.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

...True! :D :D

[bewareofitalics]

...and then nothing could stand in our way! :D

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

Fuhgeddaboutit!

... Well, it is sicilicissito.

someday, you should call and speak latin to me. It is the basis of the romance languages, after all.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHA. Ha.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

XD Isn't it insane.

Ohh, I could do that! I could find a non-skeevy Catullus poem! ^___^ Or perhaps compose something. My icon definitely doesn't count.

[bewareofitalics]

You have learned well the ways of the Deceptively Cute. :D

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

It's all thanks to you, master.

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

How do they use the same word for Hedgehog and Beam with Iron Spikes? I see the spikes part, but the rest...!

Oooh, that would all be wonderful~! And i doubt i would be offended by a skeevy one. If you composed something? i would melt. Seriously. Not that i don't already. (trying a translator (http://cdsjcl.f2g.net/translate.html) on your icon makes it weird!)

[bewareofitalics]

*beams! deceptively cutely*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Beats me. It's a versatile language. ^__^ They also use the infinitive verb form for non-infinitive verbs, so.

^__^ Well--! I shall do that, I think. I know enough Latin to put together a fairly decent love poem. (*dies* It's--not that off, at least what they gave me for entering the entire phrase; it means 'your place or mine?'.)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*XD*

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

Madly! A tongue of all trades? ---bwahuh? How do you... That doesn't even make linguistic sense, does it...?

Do not trouble yourself over it, obviously! I'm mad for you anyhow. (... Really? Hm. Well, the old black magic has me in its spell! if love is the old black magic

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Exactly! And the mother of half a dozen languages. --Don't. ask. It makes 'annoying the heck out of Soujin' sense, is what it makes. XD

pfff, it's not trouble. ♥ (I know! I like that ridiculously.)

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

And cousin/auncle(is there a gender neutral Uncle/Aunt word?) to many more, i'd wager, if you explored human history long enough! --Oh, that mean verb usage...! It oughta leave you alone is what it ought to do. And it ought to not infinitize when non-infinitive.

hearts look super malformed when small. And i'm sure it' sno trouble, but if it gets to be a trouble, do not bother...! (it is a strange translation, to be sure!)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I indeed do think so...! (I don't think so. relative, I suppose.) --I wish it didn't, certainly. Pesky verbs are driving me insane.

Not on my computer! *wins. except not* Well, it shan't, so there. <3333 (indeed, but rather charming).

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

(Well, relative can describe many kinds...! We should invent one, i think.) --Poor Soujin... Maddened by Verbs. What would a psychiatrist tell someone who was having nightmares about verbs, i wonder?

Well, have some then! ♥♥♥! *cuddle* I adore you, miss. (Strange things often are!)

[rhombal.livejournal.com]

(...I can see your point.) He's silly whenever he talks about literature. XD My little sister always has to correct him.

[theatre-angel.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I don't think I've even said "cheap coffin" in English. That is so fabulous.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

(XD Thank you.) Awww. That's really extremely wonderful.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

(That is, of course, quite true. What kind of word? Ankle?) --I should have asked him. XD I could have my own Ophelia-esque mad scene with verbs instead of flowers.

*eeeeeeeeees* I adore you, sir. (That is v. true...! You are always saying true things.)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Isn't it terrific?

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

(XDXD It is gender neutral!) --That would be delightfully madcrazysilly, so long as you did not drown in water afterwards. Perhaps a burial by nouns?

*nuzzles* I more than adore you, miss. (You are always saying that i say true things. Silly Wonderful.)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

(It is! :D) That's better. Would you leap into my grave and swear?

Wicked. Showing me up. *pounces* (It's true!)

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

I would! Though, i would endeavor not to desecrate the corpse. I'm not Danish, after all.

I must in some way, since you show me up constantly by your very self...! *catches!* (That you are silly wonderful!)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Yes, thankfully. That should make it all easier for everyone involved.

And you're so wonderful with words; I cannot ever hope to best you there. *^___^* (Nope!)

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

Especially your brother sister! I am sure it would make him her kill me. With poisoned swords. Or screaming monkeys.

But you are so much better with them, really! You have that masterful way...! I have silly humor and shallow characters. *smooches* (Yes!)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Exactly! And s/he'd probably do it, too. And then it would end up being a comedy like Romeo and Juliet, and that would just be sad.

Do I believe you? Not particularly. <3 And you have fascinating plotlines, so there. *squees!*

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

But it would be wonderfully parodic of the Comitragedies! --do you think she would really kill me with PoisonedFlying Monkeys? Because it may have to happen as such just so it can be told!

Well, your way with words is certainly more beautiful than mine, no matter how you deny it. You are a goddess of language and stories, in truth. <333 Bah, my plotlines are indecipherable even to me! So there *glomps!*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Well, that is true; but must we sacrifice ourselves for art? --Very likely, but as before--!

Just for that, I will flail about at you! And I love your writing, so there.