Re:Lexx Marathon Downunder
[color=orange][i]It’s all greek to me…[/i][/color]
[quote=”thefrey”]Well then you need to make that three Flame, I was not enthralled with Season 4. It had several wonderful jewels in it, but overall, I felt let down from Season 3.
Now, as a public service announcement I will translate (for the first and only time) the preceding exchange for those who do not have to keep an eye on the board and therefore ignored the preceding. Please guys, this is a waste of thread and a unnecessary drain on my time. 🙂
I had considered a quick edit replacing the Latin with ‘This was something the moderator had not the time or inclination to look up’ and ‘Yet again something I did not feel like looking up’ But I decided not to do that… this time. 😉
Anyhow, what they have been saying is….
Aut disce aut discede (either learn or leave)
Clamo, clamatis, omnes clamamus pro glace lactis. (I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream)
Qualem blennum! (What a doofus!)
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? (How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?)
Occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros. (Repeatedly reheated cabbage will kill the poor teachers – or – that cabbage hashed up again and again proves the death of the wretched teachers.)
Most of this stuff was from this web site http://www.biopsych.net/latin_phrases_for_all_occasions.htm
Anyhow…. please let us not do this again, locking and editing threads is just as fatiguing as looking up translations. Besides… Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis. (You do not know the power of the dark side of a moderator.) Oh, all right, I added the moderator part…. but… but… lol![/quote]
From the site theFrey linked to http://www.biopsych.net/latin_phrases_for_all_occasions.htm :
[quote]Impress your friends and relatives, talk to them in Latin. Remember: “quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur” (anything said in Latin sounds profound).[/quote]
LOL!! 😛 😀 I beg your indulgence, but let’s give this a try: [i]Vaselinus lubricantus[/i] (which loosely translated means “Give my regards to your donkey”). How true, it does sound profound! 😉 (all right, I made that phrase and its definition up) And la bamba means…
Thanks for translating, the Frey! It was actually a very funny exchange, but I can understand your concerns — not all of us will want to spend the time looking up the expressions, and if you don’t, then they could conceivably come across as rather irritating spammy nonsense rather than, when translated, funny nonsense.
What about common Latin expressions which have made their way into our [i]LEXXicon[/i] such as [i]veni vidi vici, et tu Brute,[/i] and the ones one uses in discussing, for instance, faulty reasoning (logical fallacies) in arguments such as [i]non-sequitur, sine qua non, ad hoc, post hoc, ad populum, a priori[/i] etc. I suppose the general rule of thumb should be, if you think people may have difficulty understanding the words then you should translate them for everyone’s benefit, and one should never use Latin to aid an [i]ad hominem[/i] (attack on the man). 😉 😛
Actually, about the only Latin I really know is la bamba, and livin la vida loca! 😀
Anyway, back to LEXX, I wasn’t all that keen on Season 3, though it certainly had its moments. [i]Garden[/i] is one of my favourite LEXX episodes, and the balloons being gobbled up by the Lexx in GirlTown is a real gem. Don’t get me wrong, I thought S3 was very good, I just didn’t generally like it as much as the movies or S2. Sometimes I joke that LEXX lost its way when my absolute favourite character died, Bugbomb — oh why, oh why did they have to kill him off 😉 — but having not seen S4, I think LEXX was very good all along. Better at some times than others, of course, but still a damned fine show even at the worst of times — for me that was [i]791[/i]. It was just a little too sadistic for my tastes, although there were plenty of other episodes that came really close.
Anyway, despite warnings that I probably won’t like S4 much (I’m generally a very cynical person) I’m really looking forward to it, and will keep an open mind.
-Logan
P.S. Latin rocks. Viva Ricky Martin! 😛 (er, or do I mean latinos?)