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English to Latin, please

 
 
Reply Tue 28 Sep, 2010 10:21 pm
Sometimes life just sucks
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Fido
 
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Reply Tue 28 Sep, 2010 10:26 pm
Pig Latin??? This ought to be easy...
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Tue 28 Sep, 2010 10:36 pm
@retired2AZ,
There is no way to say "life...sucks" in Laton (nor any other non-English language that I know of). It would make no sense. "Sucks" in the sense that you mean it is American slang. To translate "Life sucks" into any other language, the meaning would come out as "Life gives breast milk" or "Life nurtures" or something similar.
Fido
 
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Reply Wed 29 Sep, 2010 04:05 am
@Merry Andrew,
Merry Andrew wrote:

There is no way to say "life...sucks" in Laton (nor any other non-English language that I know of). It would make no sense. "Sucks" in the sense that you mean it is American slang. To translate "Life sucks" into any other language, the meaning would come out as "Life gives breast milk" or "Life nurtures" or something similar.

I am sure there was Latin for: Man was born between **** and piss and sometime life is both...
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retired2AZ
 
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Reply Wed 29 Sep, 2010 06:42 am
@Merry Andrew,
Yes, it is slang. What would be your best guess at how to express that feeling in Latin, even if the actual words are something like "life is really hard?" Thanks.
Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Wed 29 Sep, 2010 04:48 pm
@retired2AZ,
Vita cloaca est would mean, roughly, "life is a ****-house."
George
 
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Reply Wed 29 Sep, 2010 06:42 pm
@Merry Andrew,
Or as Seneca the Younger said:
Maluisses cloacas Augeae purgare.
You'd rather have cleaned out Augeas's ****-house.
Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Wed 29 Sep, 2010 08:05 pm
@George,
As we say here in cyberspace,
Purgamentum init, purgamentum exit.
"garbage in, garbage out."
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retired2AZ
 
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Reply Thu 30 Sep, 2010 08:11 am
@George,
I am looking for a latin phrase that expresses the "sometimes life is really difficult" idea without getting into bodily functions. Any suggestions?
George
 
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Reply Thu 30 Sep, 2010 02:34 pm
@retired2AZ,
Aliquando vita difficillima est
Aliquando --> sometimes
vita --> life
difficillima --> really difficult, very difficult
est --> is
retired2AZ
 
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Reply Thu 30 Sep, 2010 02:46 pm
@George,
Thank you very much!
George
 
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Reply Thu 30 Sep, 2010 03:16 pm
@retired2AZ,
You're welcome, retired2AZ.
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