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Latin Scholars Are Geeks

Geekdom is not limited to technology enthusiasts and D&D players.

I got this from someone on my astronomy club mailing list (I’m a geek!) and he got it from the Columbia.edu Latin web site. Some English to Latin translations you may find useful as you go about your day:

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert.

May barbarians invade your personal space!
Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!

May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!
Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!

Don't let the bastards wear you down.
Noli nothis permittere te terere.
Go ahead. Make my day.
Age. Fac ut gaudeam.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck is a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam
possit materiari?


Beam me up, Scotty!
Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!

Who was that masked man?
Quis fuit ille personatus?

Now this isn't carved in stone ...
Nunc hoc in marmore non est incisum ...

Shark! Shark!
Pistrix! Pistrix!
 
If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated
and much too close!
Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis
propinquus ades!
 
When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas
habebunt.
 
Next up, common terms in Klingon. Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni.
 

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