Golconda Roadsign

Latin For All Occasions

Coctail Party Chitchat

• Hot enough for you?
• Satine caloris tibi est?
• Run into much traffic on the way over?
• Turbane magna vehiculorum obviam erat tibi venienti huc?
• What do you think I paid for this watch?
• Quanto putas mihi stare hoc horologium manuale?
• Want to know what I think? I think...
• Visne sicre quod credam? Credo...
• ...that all wrestling is fixed.
• luctationes omnes praestitutas esse.
• ...that flying saucers are real.
• orbes volantes exstare.
• ...that Elvis is still alive
• Elvem ipsum etiam vivere.

Conversational Fillers

Conversation Enders

• God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!
• Di! Ecce hona! Uxot mea me necabit!
• Excuse me. I've got to go see a man about a dog.
• Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi
• Darn! There goes my beeper!
• Heu! Tintinnuntius meus sonat!
• I'm outta here.
• Abeo.
• Have a nice day.
• Die dulci fruere.

Pithy Expressions

• By that very fact.
• Ipso facto.
• No way
• Nullo modo
• Read my lips
• Labra lege
• A done deal
• Pactum factum
• Fat chance
• Fors fortis
• Accidentally on purpose
• Casu consulto
• Royally screwed
• Raptus regaliter
• In a world of hurt
• Totus anctus

Bumper Stickers

• I break for animals
• Prena pro feris teneo
• Save the whales
• Balaenae nobis conservandae sunt
• Honk if you speak latin
• Sona si latine loqueris
• When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will use catapults
• Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt.

Negotiations

• I'd like to cut a deal.
• Volo pactium facere.
• Now this isn't carved in stone.
• Nunc hoc in marmore non est incisum.
• This is just a ballpark figure.
• Hic est numerus, plus aut minus.
• I'm thinking out loud.
• Clara voce cogito.
• I think we're on the same wavelength.
• Credo nos in fluctu eodem esse.

Sweetening the Deal

• Can you put a little more money on the table?
• Potense plus pecuniae in mensa ponere?
• Let's look at the bottom line.
• Summan scrutemur.
• Is that your best offer?
• Num ista condicio optima est?
• If you can't go any higher, the deal is off.
• Si plus offere non potes, pactum reptum est.

Helpful Phrases

• Unfortunately, I can't find those particular documents.
• Eheu, litteras istas reperite non possum.
• This isn't going to hurt, is it?
• Num mini dolebit hoc?
• Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Eurpoe.
• Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum.
• In the good old days, childer like you were left to perish in windswept crags.
• Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi, similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.
• I am not interested in your dopey religious cult.
• Nihil curo de ista tua sults superstitione.
• You infernal machine!
• Machina improba!

Embarassing Situations

• I didn't expect you home so soon!
• Non sperabam te domum tam cito revenire!
• The check is in the mail.
• Perscriptio in manibus tabellariorum est.
• Your fly is open.
• Braccae tuae aperiuntur.
• Your slip is showing.
• Subucula tua apparet.
  Threats
• Watch out - you might end up divided into three parts, like Gaul.
• Prospice tibi - ut Gallia, tu quoque in tres partes dividaris.
• If I were you, I wouldn't walk in from of any catapults.
• Cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules.
• What did you call me?
• Quid me appellavisti?
• You want to repeat that?
• Visne illud iterare?
• You and whose army?
• Tuente! Anque cuius exercitus!
• Well, if you don't understand plain Latin, I'm not going to dirty my hands on you.
• Bene, cum Latine nescias, nolo manus meas in te maculare.
• May barbarians invade your personal space!
• Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!
• May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!
• Utinam logica tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
• May you always misuse the subjunctive!
• Utinam modo subiunctivo semper male utaris!

Beginning a relationship

• Do you come here often?
• Frequentasne hunc locum?
• What's your sign?
• Quo signo nata es?
• I feel that I already know you.
• Sentio me iam te novisse.
• I think fate brought us together.
• Credo fatum nos coegisse.
• Your place or mine?
• Apudne te vel me?
• A little more up and to the right.
• Paululum sursum et dextrorsum.
• Oh! More! Go on! Yes! Ohh! Ummm!
• O! Plus! Perge! Aio! Hui! Hem!
• Let's not rush into anything.
• In ullam rem ne properemus.
• I hope we'll still be friends.
• Spero nos familiares mansuros.

At a dinner party

• Let's switch place cards.
• Chartas loci mutemus
• Is this the right form?
• Hacine furcilla uti decet?
• Do I drink this or stick my fingers in it?
• Hocine bibo aut eum digitos insero
• My dessert is on fire!
• Mensa secunda mea flagrat!

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