Du'ers who know Latin, please help. What's this mean?

raccoon

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Wed Jul-08-09 10:44 AM
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Du'ers who know Latin, please help. What's this mean?

"Conservito delenda est pro is deleo orbis terrarum!"

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HopeHoops

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Wed Jul-08-09 10:47 AM
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1. "The hermit crab broke out of the terrarium"

Or it might mean "I have terrible stinky gas" - I forget.

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MineralMan

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Wed Jul-08-09 10:49 AM
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2. Expired Jam is for use only in round terrariums.

Edited on Wed Jul-08-09 10:53 AM by MineralMan

I'm pretty sure that's correct.

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SoxFan

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Wed Jul-08-09 10:49 AM
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3. "Call the Triumverate right fucking now!"

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gmoney

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Wed Jul-08-09 10:49 AM
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4. "People called Romans they go the house"

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Richardo

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Wed Jul-08-09 11:11 AM
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9. !!

:rofl:

My favorite Monty Python bit ever.

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Inchworm

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Wed Jul-08-09 10:51 AM
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5. Conservatives have good land in their eyes

?

:silly:

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MajorChode

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Wed Jul-08-09 10:55 AM
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6. Here's what it means

It essentially means that if you are too afraid of dying, you will never truly live.

I'm 58% sure that's correct.

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rug

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Wed Jul-08-09 11:09 AM
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7. Conservatives must be placed in a terrarium.

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trackfan

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Wed Jul-08-09 11:09 AM
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8. I could be wrong, but it doesn't appear to be good latin.

If Conservito is taken not as a latin word per se, but as a proper name, say, of a conservative group, this could be a poorly constructed latin sentence, with a lot of errors, that roughly means: Conservito should be wiped out for they would wipe out the world. That's just a guess. I'm not exactly sure how to properly phrase that, but this is a try:

Conservito delendum est quia orbem terrarum delere conaturi sunt.

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MajorChode

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Wed Jul-08-09 02:24 PM
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10. That's the great thing about latin, nobody knows when you fuck it up

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Gormy Cuss

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Wed Jul-08-09 02:58 PM
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11. It does read like a weak Latin translation. n/t

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Strong Atheist

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Wed Jul-08-09 03:37 PM
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12. Latin's a dead language, as dead as dead can be; first it killed the Romans, and now it's killing

me...

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