"Thracias has beat an extra vile animal"

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"Thracias has beat an extra vile animal"

Postby Nero » 2007-10-17, 22:39

Please tell me what language this sentence is in:

"Thracias has beat an extra vile animal"

THE ANSWER WILL SHOCK YOU.

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Postby hanumizzle » 2007-10-17, 23:51

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:hmm:

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Re: "Thracias has beat an extra vile animal"

Postby Ioannes » 2007-10-18, 8:05

Nero wrote:Please tell me what language this sentence is in:

"Thracias has beat an extra vile animal"

THE ANSWER WILL SHOCK YOU.


If you excluse "an", it could be:

"May the common animal be blessed with these Thracians outside?"
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Postby Nero » 2007-10-18, 10:08

Yep, Ioannes got it. I hear that "an" could mean "whether"

an conj.: in direct questions , [or]; [or whether].


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Postby cweb255 » 2007-11-06, 7:31

The problem is that it's jumbled Latin. You don't place an that far into the clause. It's Latin, as Ioannes pointed out, but it's terrible Latin at that. Clever, I must admit.

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Postby Ioannes » 2007-11-06, 20:10

cweb255 wrote:The problem is that it's jumbled Latin. You don't place an that far into the clause. It's Latin, as Ioannes pointed out, but it's terrible Latin at that. Clever, I must admit.


I don't think Nero tried to write perfect Classical Latin, only to demonstrate how many "false" friends there are in Latin. It looks like an English sentence, but the words are, although put together COMPLETELY random, still Latin ;)
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Postby Supreemio » 2007-11-06, 20:41

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Postby Lazar Taxon » 2007-11-06, 21:15

Here's one of my favorite Latin poems:

O sibile, si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
O nobile, demis trux
Vatis enim? Causam dux.
Native: [flag=]en-us[/flag] Good: [flag=]es[/flag] [flag=]fr[/flag] Okay: [flag=]de[/flag] [flag=]la[/flag] Beginning: [flag=]it[/flag] Interested in: [flag=]he[/flag] [flag=]hi[/flag] [flag=]ru[/flag]

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Postby cweb255 » 2007-11-09, 4:42

Surely medieval, right? Or perhaps neo. I prefer Catullus myself...

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Postby Babelfish » 2007-11-09, 15:37

Looks unintelligible to me :shock: Not that my Latin is much good, but "causam dux" doesn't even seem like a complete sentence... Am I missing something?

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Postby Lazar Taxon » 2007-11-09, 16:44

Actually it's complete nonsense. :D

Oh see, Billy, see her go!
Forty buses in a row!
Oh no, Billy, them is trucks!
What is in 'em? Cows and ducks!
Native: [flag=]en-us[/flag] Good: [flag=]es[/flag] [flag=]fr[/flag] Okay: [flag=]de[/flag] [flag=]la[/flag] Beginning: [flag=]it[/flag] Interested in: [flag=]he[/flag] [flag=]hi[/flag] [flag=]ru[/flag]

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Postby cweb255 » 2007-11-09, 18:51

Lazar Taxon wrote:Actually it's complete nonsense. :D

Oh see, Billy, see her go!
Forty buses in a row!
Oh no, Billy, them is trucks!
What is in 'em? Cows and ducks!


I was wondering if I was starting to go crazy or not. It doesn't work if you speak Latin properly. Like the final -e on Sibile is pronounced like the /e/ in "hen".

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Postby Lazar Taxon » 2007-11-09, 19:00

Well of course it's not phonetically identical, but I think it could still be pulled off. There are some accents of English in which "Billy" might end in something like [ɛ].
Native: [flag=]en-us[/flag] Good: [flag=]es[/flag] [flag=]fr[/flag] Okay: [flag=]de[/flag] [flag=]la[/flag] Beginning: [flag=]it[/flag] Interested in: [flag=]he[/flag] [flag=]hi[/flag] [flag=]ru[/flag]

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Postby cweb255 » 2007-11-10, 3:49

If I'm not mistaken, the accent is first i, which sounds like the i in pit. It's not at all correspondent. Cute, but not correspondent.

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Postby Lazar Taxon » 2007-11-10, 4:31

I know, I know. :roll: In fact, even the vocabulary is a bit of a stretch: 'sibile' would have to be the (nominalized) masculine vocative singular of the adjective 'sibilus' ('hissing'), and 'demis' would, I suppose, have to be the dative or ablative plural of the (hypothetical) Greek borrowing 'demos'.

Anyway, here is my attempt at a reading of this great piece: O sibile!
Native: [flag=]en-us[/flag] Good: [flag=]es[/flag] [flag=]fr[/flag] Okay: [flag=]de[/flag] [flag=]la[/flag] Beginning: [flag=]it[/flag] Interested in: [flag=]he[/flag] [flag=]hi[/flag] [flag=]ru[/flag]

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Postby cweb255 » 2007-11-10, 14:52

Haha, love the accent.


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