Showing posts with label catullus made me do it. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catullus made me do it. Show all posts

Monday, October 20, 2008

Translation

I was petrified for awhile there (all through Games 5 and 6, actually, and until Aybar's home run in Game 7) that I'd somehow brought a curse upon the Rays with my Latin. You can imagine how relieved I was when I woke up from a cough syrup-induced haze to see smiling Rays faces on the TV.

Because I know you've all been waiting for it (and because now my as-yet-unlatinized additional sentences are even more relevant), here is the translation for:

Longoria iuvenis vim ostendit quem globum lunae capissit ... Artus auriolus Sonnanstinis alba ad thecam nigram designatam torquet.

Young Longoria displays/shows strength which launches the ball to the moon ... The golden arm of Sonnanstine hurls white tablets to the marked out black box.

Yep. That sounds WAY better in Latin. (It's also WAY dirtier.)

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

The pinnacle of geekdom

Longoria iuvenis vim ostendit quem globum lunae capissit ... Artus auriolus Sonnanstinis alba ad thecam nigram designatam torquet.

Props if you can translate and correct my Latin. Oh, and if you can point out the sexual innuendos, for there are two. EDIT actually the whole second sentence is one big innuendo. Oops.

Translation will be posted ... at some point. For now, I will retire my prose composition skillz and kill all thoughts of somehow transforming those floating sentences into ... verse.

QUICK! RUNANDHIDE!

[Who else has someone composing Latin prose about baseball?]