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 07:40 AM, Philippe Caquant wrote:
[snip]
> - Haec est aÎronavis 'Alpha Delta' vocans Novi Eboraci
> aÎroportum ! Quemadmodum me audis ?
> - AÎronavis 'Alpha Delta' a Novi Eboraci aÎroportu: te
> valde et clare audio. Unde venis et quo vadis ?
> - Novum Eboracum ab A.D.: Londinio Novum Eboracum,
> altitudine pedum triginta milia, cursu duo, septem,
> quinque), in nubibus volans.
> - A.D. a N.E.: Radari contingeris...
> etc, etc.
>
> But we'd better no joke on that subject by now, I
> don't want to end in jail...
OK - some of the vocab's modern, of course, but the
Latin's grammatical!
It ain't 'Dog Latin', which must be
barbarous - just plain ol' modern Latin, official in the
Vatican City, if nowhere else.
Ray
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