Hollywood Latin-SERMO LATINUS ACUIFOLIIS
I love it, I love it, I love it!
Id amo, id amo, id amo!
Make the mother the father, change the cat to a dog, and lose the kid with cancer
Muta matrem in patrem, converte felem in canem, amitte puerum cancerosum
And replace all the love scenes with car chases and set it in the Hamptons instead of the Civil War
Substitue autem persecutiones curriles pro episodiis eroticis, et conloca dramatis actionem in Hamtunis in vicem temporis Belli Civilis Americani
Wait, the girl in the copy room hated it!
Siste, puella in scriptorio xerographico fabulam oderat!
I’m putting it in turnaround
Hoc scriptum in purgatorium committo
Pasadena
Praetermitto
You’ll never eat lunch in this town again
Numquam in hoc oppido prandebis iterum
Sushi Bar Chitchat-SERMO IN TABERNA IAPONICA PULPAMENTORUM INCOCTORUM MARINORUM
No mackerel, no eel, and no slab of cold egg crud
Mihi nullus scomber, nulla anguilla, nullum frustum ovorum frictorum frigidorum
When I snap apart the chopsticks, do I make a wish?
Estne mos homini findenti virgulas prehensorias aliquod optatum declarare?
What’s the deal with the little strip of green plastic with the fringe on top?
Quapropter in catillum poni solet illa taeniola plastica viridis fimbrata?
More tuna, please, and another California roll
Da mihi plus de thunno, sodes, et alterum volumen Californicum
How do you get the little piece of fish to stick to the rice ball?
Quo modo cogitur segmentulum piscis globo oryzae adhaerere?
Are those knives as sharp as they look?
Suntne illi cultri tam acuti quam esse videntur?
You guys make great cars!
Vos vehicula praestantia fabricamini!
Sorry about those atom bombs!
Me paenitet illorum pyrobolorum atomicorum!
Thank you very much!
Vobis plurimas gratias ago!
Computer Language-SERMO LATINUS COMPUTATORIUS
Download the goddamn file, you bug-ridden piece of shit
Assume plicam damnatam, o tu moles muscaria muscerdarum
If you freeze one more time, you’re going straight to the landfill
Si denuo congeles, confestim ibis in fossam purgamentorum
Yeah? Well I’ve got an error message for you, fuckhead-you’re about to be shut down improperly with a ball-peen hammer
Sicine? Nunc age, tibi nuntium erroris habeo, stuprator-mox improprie sopieris malleolo
Car Talk-DISCEPTATIO DE CURRIBUS
It’s a hunk of junk!
Acervus inutilium est!
That car is so ugly, you’d have to put a pork chop on the backseat to get the dog to ride in it
Iste currus tam turpis est ut necesse tibi sit ponere offam porcinam in sede postrema ut persuadeas cani ut vehatur eo
You deserve a dopeslap for buying it!
Eum tam imprudenter comparando meruisti alapam!
If the rattle gets too bad, wear earmuffs
Nimium si strepat, indue operimenta tuis auribus
Of course you think you can repair it-you’re a moron!
Scilicet putas te currum reficere posse-stipes es!
Whatever it is, it’s going to cost you five hundred bucks, if that’s what it is
Quodcumque est, Ioachimicis tibi quingentis constabit, siquidem est, quod esse creditur
Try putting it in neutral and pushing it off a cliff
Vide quid eventurum sit si, dinexo ingranagio, currum e scopulo pepuleris
Keep in mind, people in the rearview mirror are even stupider than they appear
Tene memoria, viatores conspectos in speculo retrospicienti stultiores esse quam videntur
And remember, don’t drive like my brother!
Et memento, noli agere currum ut frater meus!
B.S.-BUBULUM STERCUS
A coyote whose habitat was destroyed by urban sprawl ate my homework
Suo tractu operto suburbio extenso, canis latrans domicilium meum ingressus praescriptum domesticum mihi devoravit
Due to global warming, my homework spontaneously combusted
Orbe terrarum nimium calefacto combustione hydrogonanthracum, pensum meum domesticum sua sponte flammam concepit
My homework was seized as evidence by mistake by DEA agents in a drug bust at the wrong address
In domum meam perperam incurrentes, vigiles qui exsequuntur usum medicamentorum illicitorum nimis studiosi pensum domesticum pro testimonio iniuste abstulerunt
My homework was forcibly recycled by eco-terrorists
Praescriptum meum domesticum per vim in fibras redactum est a sodalitate quae terrore pro Terra utitur
* My homework contracted mad homework disease and had to be destroyed.
** Bullshit!
My homework contracted mad homework disease and had to be destroyed
Necesse erat pensum domesticum meum, quod incidit in rabiem pensi deleri
Strict zoning codes enacted by the town board make it illegal for me to work at home
Praescriptis severis de aedificiorum usu decretis a decurionibus municipalibus, mihi non licet operari domi
Because of a lack of statewide standards, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that I had to stop doing my homework immediately
Normis civitati universae deficientibus, quinque ex iudicibus Tribunalis Supremi decreverunt, quattuor negantibus, ut pensum statim deponerem
Small Talk during a Colonoscopy-COLLOCUTIO INTER COLONOSCOPIAM
Now I know how a Muppet feels
Nunc novi quid Manipupa sentiat
Any sign of the trapped miners?
Conspicisne metallicos sepultos?
Are you there yet? Are you there yet? Are you there yet?
Advenistine? Advenistine? Advenistine?
Could you provide me with an affidavit stating that my head is not, in fact, up there?
Potesne mihi testimonium impertire adfirmans caput meum reapse non infixum esse podici?
Medical Confab-CONFABULATIO CUM MEDICO
I’m afraid I have some bad news, doc
Vereor ne tristem tibi nuntium adferam, medice
I’ve noticed you have no concept of time-I’ve been waiting for over an hour
Animadverti te nullam notionem temporis habere-nam plus quam unam horam tibi praestolatus sum
Your handwriting on prescriptions is totally illegible and shows signs of dementia
Chirographum tuum quasi demens in medicamentorum praescriptis nemo legere potest
Your manner is oddly distracted
Te geris mirum in modum neglegenter
You have an extremely strange sense of humor
Inusitatissima iocaris
Your fees are insane
Mercedes tuae insanae sunt
I think you have a brain tumor
Puto te tuber in cerebro alere
I’ll stop in again in a year and see how you’re doing
Reveniam ad annum ut cognoscam de valetudine tua
Hang in there!
Perfer et obdura!