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AMERICAblog: Maureen Dowd's column is in Latin

  • coldH2Owi · 1 year ago
    I really hope you're kidding & I'm just too upper Midwest to get it. This column actually got me to write my third letter of complaint to the NYTs Public Editor. I guess there's no accounting for taste, on either end of this comment. Later.
  • John Aravosis · 1 year ago
    Oh my God, it's brilliant. You're kidding, you didn't like it?
  • breaktheterror · 1 year ago
    Uh yeah, it's fabulous.

    Saying that as one who trudged through six years of Latin...
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    I loved it. But I took latin when I was in elementary school. Am 60 now, hell am lucky if I remember english. But brilliant it is. I wish I could remember. Well they are starting to say some latin in our mass. So who knows.
  • bish8 · 1 year ago
    Are you sure this isn't written in "Palinese?
  • annatopia · 1 year ago
    OMG! LOL

    that's frankly the first dowd column i've laughed out loud with (instead of AT) in quite some time.
  • annatopia · 1 year ago
    OT, but... hey John have you seen this?

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27164270/
  • ViaAlpina · 1 year ago
    Great, now could you translate for us, please?
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    O Iupiter! O di imortales! O Lingua Latina Rededicata! Ubi nam gentium summus? Nunc quid?
  • Gary SF · 1 year ago
    Terram Eskimorum ! Primus Dudus ! IV 0 I K ! lipsticka in porcam ! - Ut rudimentum postulo totus!
  • Gary SF · 1 year ago
    You can use this link to translate if necessary:

    http://www.tranexp.com:2000/Translate/result.shtml
  • susano · 1 year ago
  • whomod · 1 year ago
    THANK YOU!

    Some of never took latin in college or were ever Catholic schoolboys.
  • Asterix · 1 year ago
    It's absolutely great, right up there with Buchwald's Kilometres Deboutish squib.

    I love the "doggy-ness" of this thing: "Tu betchus!", "Primus dudus", etc.

    But "IV 0 I K.ibus". The Romans didn't have zeroes--that was an (gasp!) Arabic invention.
  • scottinsf · 1 year ago
    My husband has been feeling proud that he can still get by with his Japanese.

    I don't understand a word he's saying.
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
    sounds like my Husband's French... he only knows a couple of phrases, and you really can't use them in public.

    they're a bit... umm... sexually charged?
  • MikeinSanJo · 1 year ago
    Not sure I get it either... Is there really a column behind that Latin? Who's got the translation?
  • John Aravosis · 1 year ago
    Just talked to Joe, he had a hard time too. Honestly, I used a lot of my Spanish, French and Italian to make sense of it, and even then it was hard. I have a feeling it might truly have a lot of Latin thrown in there, or treated things in a very Latin manner.
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    You are right John. Latin is used a lot in medicine. You are right they are all the romantic languages.
  • Charles2 · 1 year ago
    Thanks goodness for the translations pointed to below. I'd have had better luck - and less of a headache - with Spanish or Russian...
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    In the Age of the Tubes of the Internets, I am like most people: our attention spans aren't up for MoDo's "clever" tricks. If I can't scan her column in 10 seconds to get what I want from her, I'm like: "Check, please."
  • Butch1 · 1 year ago
    " America est pulchra." That's all I can remember from my Latin class many year's ago. ;-)
  • canuck55 · 1 year ago
    As John Lennon wrote:
    Amo amas amat, a monk a mink a minibus.
  • via · 1 year ago
    McCain is traversing a slippery slope.

    Slipperus slipperus fallus bumptum.
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
    Qua oh qua est Viki Iseman?
  • John Aravosis · 1 year ago
    See that's why I think it's hysterical doing it in Latin. That's funny.
  • dad · 1 year ago
    too brilliant.
  • Hurrycane · 1 year ago
    Latin... that's a little "elitist," don't you think?
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
    you're right... repugnicans everywhere won't be able to follow it at all.

    they usually don't teach Latin prior to the 9th grade.
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    Oh please, I don't think so. As a catholic the priest use to say mass in Latin. I don't see that as an elitist. When I was a young child visiting my relatives in Italy you would hear some latin. Its not elitist.
  • michaelt · 1 year ago
    i get the same thing from this as i do all modo columns.

    she's a pompous ass.
  • Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood) · 1 year ago
    I suppose it is certainly intelligent, scholarly, and perhaps brilliant. But how is one supposed to know. If anyone runs across some Ancient Romans, ask them how this will affect their vote in the upcoming election.
  • kladinvt · 1 year ago
    I'm picturing a Road Runner cartoon starring Ioannes McCainus (mavericus mashuganus).
  • breaktheterror · 1 year ago
    I think people may be missing the subtle "eff you" in here. Remember, MoDo was just kicked off the McCain plane, and they're essentially running a campaign against all smart people, so...

    "You want elitist? You want arugula-sniffing? Fine, here's a column in Latin, suckers."
  • Kansaskitty · 1 year ago
    I loved it and laughed out loud throughout! It's been many a year since my high school Latin classes, and I'm quite rusty, but this was brilliant!
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    That gal is a genius. OMG you don't even need to know Latin to love this.
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    Quo Vadis, MsSamus?
  • Rossdhu16 · 1 year ago
    Nemo me impune lacessit McCainianis!
  • B^2 · 1 year ago
    Kudos to Maureen Dowd! For the first time I can see what a wingnut sees when he reads the truth!
  • curlytoes79 · 1 year ago
    Talk about lipsticka in porcam!
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    It's game-show Latin at best. Reminiscent of Catholic boy's high school slogan "Semper ubi sub ubi." [always where under where] It's not like it was real Latin or anything and Maureen didn't actually write it, she got some prof to scriviner it up for her. Cute, though. Cute, cutius, cutissimus!
  • John Aravosis · 1 year ago
    supralupocidit (aerial shooting of wolves)

    I'm sorry, but that's just funny :-)
  • melissap · 1 year ago
    I thought it was hilarious. Basically saying to the wing nuts that they can't understand anything - you may as well be speaking latin to them.
  • ikonoklast · 1 year ago
    Elitism non plus ultra. O, tempora! O, mores!
  • Forty2 · 1 year ago
    "Brilliant"? Oh bullshit. Yeah I get tiny bits and pieces but it's a condescending smack in my big-nose Jewy face. I don't fucking KNOW any Latin.
  • JamesR · 1 year ago
    Sara Palina barracuda borealis, cum Primus Dudus, spousus Palinanus, et friga-domina, hench-femina, Cynthia McCaina Birrabaronessa, cum Ioannes McCainus, mavericus et veteranus captivusque Belli Francoindosinini - Commuto licet puto!

    Et: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8 [For those who would want to correct me, or M.D.]
  • Bcre8ve · 1 year ago
    Absolutely brilliant?

    Tu betchus!

    Classic.