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My personal motto is in "cod" latin (I'm bound to get the spelling wrong) but something like "semper nen faecebes, sole profundum variat"

Translates to "always in the sh~t, only the depth varies"

Oh Maniac, I was wondering if anyone else could sing in Latin!

All together now, to the tune of 'My darling Clementine' -

In caverna dum metalla
Quaerit fossa aurea
Periisti et uvisti
Inde mea lacrima

Oh divina Clementina
Oh meae delicia
Da de dah da da de dah da
I can't remember anymore....

I was taught this (without seeing the words written down) by my Latin teacher approx. 46 years ago. The spelling'll be all wrong so I am open to correction....
I can also sing 'Oh Tannenbaum' in German but won't (unless asked nicely). And I can do a few French Christmas Carols.....

I remember singing Adeste Fideles at school and yes, a French carol about the beauty of the king...

I do love "Gaudete"

Apropos of nothing, a lovely old retired Colonel once told me his favourite phrase in Latin. I can't remember the actual Latin bit, but he told me it translated to "When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow"

Here you go, phoenix (I hope): Si globi ab illis, sequitur animum. Thanks yo Google translate!

That should be thanks to.

I can at least fathom "globi" LOL.

I found a website with some amusing Latin phrases: "Merda taurorum animas conturbit" (Bullshit baffles brains).

Some of you must have sung in Mozart's Ave Verum
some beautiful recordings on line:-

Ave verum corpus,
Natum de Maria Virgine,
Vere passum, immolatum
In cruce pro homine,
Cujus latus perforatum
Unda fluxit et sanguine,
Esto nobis praegustatum
In mortis examine.

I've got a Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band Christmas Carols cd and my favourite tracks are the ones sung in Latin.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0wvWOspVMM

I try to sing along to it ...

Tegan I saw Maddy Prior and Steeleye Span at Colston Hall in Bristol
a few years ago-absolutely loved it!

By wanting control over the Moon, what a wonderful creation the internet turned out to be. I don't remember that much about secondary schooling apart from the fact that it left me with this brain that wants to keep on learning. Whilst I recall a few Latin phrases from school, the internet has made it so easy. Has anyone else checked out the Latin web sites?

aut viam inveniam aut faciam
I will either find a way or make one

adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit
Add a little to a little and there will be a great heap.

castigat ridendo mores
One corrects customs by laughing at them.

legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus
We are slaves of the law in order that we may be able to be free.

non omnis moriar
Not all of me shall die.

parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus
Mountains will be in labour, and a ridiculous mouse will be born
(all that work and nothing to show for it)