Re: Dog Latin
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 25, 2004, 20:06 |
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On Saturday, January 24, 2004, at 07:25 PM, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>:
>
>> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Johansson <andjo@F...> wrote:
>>>
[snippetum]
>>> Incred-copulandus-ibilis.
>>
>> *Volutus in solo ridens meas nates ab*
>
> This looks more like Latin - I don't understand it!
It ain't - you can't have prepositions prepositing nothing in Latin!
(i.e. you can't have "ab" at the end likr that!!)
*Volutus in solo ridens meas nates ab*
Rolled on the-floor laughing my arse/ass off
>> BTW, I'd use "futuenter" rather than "copulandus".
'futuenter' derives an appropriate verb, and is a real doggy formation :)
> That's to say _copulandus_ is correctly formed? If so, yay me!
Not only is _copulandus_ correctly formed, the formation is literary
and the verb far too polite. No self-respecting dog would ever use
such a form ;)
Ray
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