I'm trying to figure out how to say, "I create, therefore I am." Best I can figure is "Creo ergo sum." Is that even remotely correct?

4/24/2008 1:17:55 AM

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"aedifico -are [to build , erect, establish; to create, frame]. creo -are [to make , create, produce; to elect to an office]; of parents, [to beget, bear]"

i believe what you said is right if you mean it in the way stated above

4/24/2008 1:36:51 AM

Credat Judaeus apella, non ego

4/24/2008 1:39:22 AM

^ there are no Js in Latin

4/24/2008 1:41:36 AM

rofl

i took latin in highschool

4/24/2008 1:59:56 AM

Hooray dead languages

4/24/2008 2:35:12 AM

Eventus stultorum magister

4/24/2008 2:43:53 AM

emptyDukes, you were correct on the first try. and darkone, the J grew out of the consonantal I, much as V grew out of the consonantal U. until a couple hundred years ago, you wouldn't see printed v's in a latin text. but since it's painful to read uiuare for vivare, the change was made by editors. it's becoming practice nowadays to do the same for j's and i's.

but don't look for signs with JNRJ in place of INRI on the Cross anytime soon (IESVS NAZARENVS REX IVDÆORVM was what Pilate had written, along with the Greek and Hebrew equivalents "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. sadly tww doesn't support those alphabets)

[Edited on April 24, 2008 at 4:49 AM. Reason : .]

4/24/2008 4:49:10 AM

Creo = procreate
Fingo= shaping/forming into
Facio= building something like you’d do in a workshop
aedifico= building an edifice

...ergo sum.

Creo is a good option if your doing it in a religious sense, but fingo is better if you are going for pre-christian latin. Æ is essentially a medievalism.

4/24/2008 6:52:29 AM

semper ubi sub ubi

4/24/2008 7:58:08 AM

^ That's about all I remember from high school Latin

4/24/2008 8:25:49 AM

^ I remember about half of the first chapter of Ecce Romani.

Ecce! In pictura est puella nomine Cornelia. Cornelia est puella Romana quae in Italia habitat. Etiam in pictura est altera puella Romana nomine Flavia...

Look! In the picture is a girl named Cornelia. Cornelia is a Roman girl who lives in Italy. Also in the picture is another Roman girl named Flavia...

eheu... I mean sigh.

4/24/2008 9:14:17 AM

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"Who knows Latin?"

No one?

4/24/2008 9:39:27 AM

I think Frosh knows Latin but he doesn't post too much anymore.

I took four years of Latin in high school and I don't remember a damn thing on how to speak it. I do remember most of the mythology/culture though.

4/24/2008 9:54:47 AM

Tdub never fails. Thanks for the help.

4/24/2008 10:11:14 AM

So, how can the people that claim to know Latin be sure they actually know it?

4/24/2008 10:22:11 AM

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"^ there are no Js in Latin"

Seriously, didn't you ever watch Indiana Jones

4/24/2008 10:41:51 PM

In Latin Jehova starts with an I!

4/24/2008 10:50:26 PM

^^^ well the catholic church had masses exclusively in latin for just about forever so that kept it somewhat alive

4/24/2008 11:04:59 PM

e pluribus rectum

4/25/2008 1:29:45 AM

Extollo mortuus ordinem

4/25/2008 1:52:36 AM

i took latin in HS

^^^^wasnt that in hebrew??

4/25/2008 2:54:06 AM

man fuck some catholics and jews and shit and all those other religions

4/25/2008 2:56:10 AM

^^ Apparently you aren't much of a movie guru after all.

4/25/2008 9:27:41 AM

buuuuuuuuuuuurn

4/25/2008 9:41:57 AM

I think its

Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae

4/28/2008 12:12:46 AM

it's a dead language, they'd always say.

4/28/2008 1:03:29 AM

What is this then? Romanes eunt domus, "People called Romanes they go the house"?

4/28/2008 1:31:28 AM

semper ubi sub ubi

4/28/2008 7:00:32 AM

^^ FTW

4/28/2008 11:41:30 AM