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Oh, darn, there I go again! You know, I just can't help speaking Latin. Ecce, denuo ago, sicut soleo! Non enim possum facere quin Latine loquar. It's so second nature to me, sometimes I don't even know I'm doing it! Adeo huius mihi rei natura facta est, ut interdum nesciam quidem me sic facere! So you thought you'd already soaked up as much scire facere (savoir faire) as you could by reading that howlingly funny yet highly literate guide to all things Latin, the best-selling Latin for All show more Occasions. Well, you still have some things to learn. Henry Beard, having already freed former altar boys and Latin-class alumni and alumnae from their previously held assumption that Latin is dead, is now going all out to bring this formerly moribund language into the twentieth century. Henricus has realized that he simply cannot stop when there are people in this world who don't know how to say. "Please don't squeeze the Charmin!" in Latin ("Sis, noli Volvivoluptatem comprimere!"), so he has prepared an entirely new, even funnier way to deal with all possible situations. You can impress your friends as never before on St. Patrick's Day when you yell, "Hibernia in aeternum!" ("Erin, go bragh!") and wow a tour guide by musing, "Scire velim ubi taberna munusculorum sit" ("I wonder where the gift shop is"). Break into show biz with your impressions of Marlon Brando, "Proeliator fuissem" ("I could've been a contender"); Cary Grant, "ludaea, ludaea, ludaea" ("Judy, Judy, Judy"); and James Cagney. "Tu, rattus turpis!" ("You dirty rat!"). Breeze by the stiffest of maitre d's by saying, 'Cauponas percenseo" ("I'm a restaurant reviewer"). Your Latin education simply isn't complete without it. Tete oblecta! (Have fun!) show lessTags
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Groan-worthy. The best parts are the exhortation-style subjunctives — they always sound so idiotic in English. Let's have a Tupperware party — Habeamus convivium ad mercem emendam Tupperi! Who says stuff like that? Romans, that's who.
In general, more of the same, though covering different subjects than the first book. It's fun. :)
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56+ Works 8,230 Members
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1991
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 478.3421 — Language Latin & Italic languages Classical Latin usage (Prescriptive linguistics) Audio-lingual approach to expression; phrase books Audio-lingual approach to expression for people whose native language is different For people speaking English and Old English For English-speakers
- LCC
- PA2107 .B39 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Latin philology and language
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