"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.

[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]

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

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

[theatre-angel.livejournal.com]

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