More english to latin, please

Anyone?

Only have time for one right now:

Telum elegans pro saeculo humaniore.
An elegant weapon for a more civilized Age.

(Of course, that should apply to the foil group.)

Adversus iram meam, etiam in cavea mus sum.

Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.

Bullet with Butterfly Wings.

Glans cum alis papilionis.

An interesting image!

That's almost word for word, can you get it more correct grammatically?

As for foil, I think this says it best: "Why sabre? Because you don't take heads with the point." [borrowed that from a another forum]

Again, this is a word for word, but the grammar seems wrong.

But thank you anyway.

Here's the full Bullet with Butterfly Wings Lyrics

Here's the full "You've got another thing coming" lyrics.

Dan,
I don't understand.
In what way is the grammar incorrect?

Telum is a noun, neuter, singular, nominative.
Elegans is an adjective agreeing in gender, number and case with
telum.
Pro saeculo humaniore is a prepositional phrase.
Pro is a proposition taking the ablative.
Saeculo is a noun, the ablative singular of saeculum.
Humaniore is an adjective, the comparative degree of humanus, agreeing in gender, number and case with saeculo.

I stand [or sit, 'cause I'm sitting] corrected.

I was using Spanish to compare [Una arma elegante para una edad civilizada] and it just didn't seem right.

I just gave it another run through Quick Latin 3; turns out many of the words in English have multiple words that can be used in Latin, so Telum had originally translted as dart, spear, javelin-but also weapon.

My apologies.

None necessary.

What's Quick Latin #?

From http://www.quicklatin.com/:

"QuickLatin is a tool which helps you translate Latin into English. It has dictionary and parsing capabilities, plus some sentence-handling abilities. It is based on the Whitaker's Words 1.97 dictionary and includes algorithms like those of Words, but adds sentence and translation handling code.

At the moment it does not have the ability to handle English into Latin. "

You can run the trial for a few days.

Just because it's word for word the same order as English doesn't mean it's wrong. With English or Spanish, you need the word order to be a certain way to make sense of it - but most stuff in Latin, as long as you don't break up too many clauses, can be put in any old order and it still means the same thing. So it can be in English word order, and it makes just as much sense as in any other. I don't see anything wrong with those sentences.

Also, having taken a class in compurational linguistics, I don't trust computer programs to pick up on grammar.

Computational linguistics? Cool stuff, Rufio -- way out of my league, tho.
What do you plan to do with it?

Rufio, thanks for the input. I did see my mistake in assuming it was the same as Spanish. In the past almost every latin phrase I liked was so similar to its Spanish equivalent, that I'd begun to think it was the rule.

I do know software translators are flakey, but QL is pretty good at what it does.

Well, it was an audit, but I think I'll retake it for credit. It is cool stuff. As for what I'll do with it, other than use it to help me conlang, I haven't a clue. Of course, I still have yet to figure out what to do with an anthro degree, too.

Dan-O - most Latin phrases are structured in SOV order instead of SVO order - I think because it's a more natural order (most natural languages have a default or mandatory SOV order). Spanish tends to be SVO, except for phrases containing pronouns, which are fequent enough to make the word order sound more like SOV. Also, both Latin and Spanish are more right-branching than English.

Of course, we read a snippet of Virgil where the adjective modifying the subject of a sentence was five lines above it... sometimes I think the Romans did that kind of thing just to confuse the hell out of anyone trying to read the stuff.

Of course you recall those famous words of Virgil:
"Hey, if it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!"

Non omnia possumus omnes.