September 26, 2007

Hocine tibi habeas iocum?

My older son is starting Latin (and also Arabic) and sent me some Latin jokes...


Latin is a dead language,
As dead as it can be,
First it killed the Romans,
And now it's killing me.

And another one. For this one the word "ubi" means "where." This one is a play on English/Latin words:

Semper ubi,
Sub ubi.

So here's one for him, if he happens to read this post:

"What'll it be?" asked the bartender.

"A martinus," said the professor.

"Don't you mean martini?"

"If I wanted more than one I'd ask for more than one."

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Posted by John Weidner at September 26, 2007 11:04 AM
Comments

My wife's name is Jessica...my Arabic professor was joking with us, asking if I had more than one wife, and I replied, "La, a'yndi Jessicatoon."

...it was side-splittingly funny, honest...

Posted by: Ethan Hahn at September 27, 2007 03:41 AM

Quantum materiæ materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari.

I've actually set that to music and plan to teach it to any children I have along with the ABC song.

Posted by: B. Durbin at September 27, 2007 06:02 PM
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