[thechat] Latin

John Handelaar john at userfrenzy.com
Mon Nov 18 12:28:00 CST 2002


On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 17:04, rudy wrote:
> > Can any Latin scholars out there tell me what "Always yours"
> > (as in a declaration of commitment to a loved one of the opposite
> > sex) would translate to?
>
> divorcibus incomprehensibilis

Ah - the Roadrunner dialect.

'Always' is 'semper'.  'Yours' wouldn't translate - in Latin
possessives are done by implication and those annoying
half-million (approx) noun cases...


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