Relevant Latin, for those who might care

**Sawney Bean** · 2nd October 09, 02:20 PM

Great. The Romans brought so much progressive dictatorship to the British Isles and tried to exterminate the people of the north cos' they wouldn't conform to their ideas of 'civilization'. Mind you they may have introduced the bagpipes to the UK, so good for them, the murdering interlopers. Veni Vidi Vici - my ****.

**saharris** · 2nd October 09, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by Old Hippie

"Under the kilt is truth"

I would suggest: "Sub Ligaculo Veritas"

**KD Burke** · 2nd October 09, 04:32 PM

Domino deo nostra muttas gratias pro Veneris die ago.

**Chas** · 4th October 09, 04:09 AM

I have always found this to be a comfort:

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

Regards

Chas

**turpin** · 4th October 09, 07:06 AM

About the same volume as a ground hog could grind if a ground hog could grind ground.

**hallmarktex** · 5th October 09, 10:13 AM

Take it easy boys. We don't want trouble, in any language.-Tombstone

**saharris** · 5th October 09, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by hallmarktex

Take it easy boys. We don't want trouble, in any language.-Tombstone

Vaccinium Tuum Sum
(“I’m your huckleberry...”)
~John H. Holliday DDS (1851-1887)

one of my favorite movies!

**hospitaller** · 5th October 09, 09:16 PM

I really don't see the point in these anachronistic latin translations/approximations.

Whatever the word the romans used for a loincloth or any piece of cloth that was tied/attached to the hip/buttocks has no connection to the kilt.

There were no kilts (as we know them) in Roman times. And this is what we consider/call classic latin.

Now, the latin used during the middle ages was not classic latin, it was religious latin. The latin as 'best interpreted' by the monks immediately prior to and after Charlemagne.

This is the same latin that was in use up until the late 1600s early 1700s, where we can say we enter the era of the kilts as we know them.

Sounds cool I guess, to appropriate latin words for items that didn't exist when the language was alive, but I don't know.... ligaculo?...really?

**Bigkahuna** · 5th October 09, 10:43 PM

Originally Posted by Old Hippie

Oh, that helps! I have been hoping someone would post something of the sort, for a somewhat sardonic signature I use occasionally:

Sub Ligaculum Veritas, or maybe Infra Ligaculum Veritas: "Under the kilt is truth" or in Nyawka: "I gotcher truth, right heah."

OK, that's my evil moment for the week. I managed to make it to Friday.

:ootd:

Nyawka hummm?