Pedants' Paradise

[mercia]

Georgie Port-régie, peu digne en paille,
Qui se dégeule sans mais. Dame craille.
Où haine de bouées ce qu'aime a tout plié:
Georgie Port-régie règne. Ohé.


Caesar cari dona militari orgi versus Belgae,
Helvetii, Germani, Venetii, Britanni — iunemit.
"Romis glorius," sed Caesar. "Nomen me impunit."
Meni tridit — Vercingetorix, forin stans —
Caesar noctim sili fors ticinis nec aut.
Ab ludi, nervi felo, Gaius Iulius, iubet.

[french frank]

Tout Gai de Reguennes.^6
6 He was obviously prevented from fulfilling his destiny, since he is compared to Gai de Reguennes.

Love that line and the note. Not related to Gilles de Rais, I presume?

Still, puzzling over mercia's Latin pome.

[mercia]

Still, puzzling over mercia's Latin pome.

me too let's try

Caesar carried on a military orgy versus the Belgians,
Swiss, Germans, Venetians, Britons - you name it
"Rome is glorious" said Caesar "no men may impugn it"
Many tried it - Vercingetorix for instance
Caesar knocked him silly for sticking his neck out.
A bloody nervy fellow, Gaius Iulius, you bet.

[amateur51]

me too let's try

Caesar carried on a military orgy versus the Belgians
Swiss, Germans, Venetians, Britons - you name it
"Rome is glorious" said Caesar "??????????"
Many tried it - Vercingetorix for instance
Caesar knocked him silly for sticking his neck out.
A bloody nervy fellow, Gaius Iulius, you bet.

[french frank]

No men may impugn it?

[amateur51]

No men may impugn it?

[mercia]

of course <doh>

I suppose I should't really 'translate' Belgae, Helvetii etc., just leave them alone

[vinteuil]

... an inscription on a bench on the banks of the Cherwell in Oxford :

ORE STABIT FORTIS ARARE PLACET ORE STAT

- an inscription which only baffled the Latinists...

[Nick Armstrong]

Mots d'Heurres: Gousses, Rames

Oh Pabs thanks for the reminder about this! It must be 30 years since I saw this admirable recueil

Lit-elle messe, moffette,
Satan ne te fête,
Et digne somme coeurs et nouez.
À longue qu’aime est-ce pailles d’Eure.
Et ne Satan bise ailleurs
Et ne fredonne messe. Moffette, ah, ouais!

(Best out-loud, à la Peter Pears...)

[vinteuil]

(Best out-loud, à la Peter Pears...)

... or even, alla Dudley Moore alla Peter Pears

[Nick Armstrong]

... or even, alla Dudley Moore alla Peter Pears

Res ipsa loquitur, or so I thought....

[vinteuil]

Res ipsa loquitur, or so I thought....

... vinteuil retires suitably chastened for his obviousness

[Nick Armstrong]

... vinteuil retires suitably chastened for his obviousness

[french frank]

I'm still trying to work out Recip (Erdogan?) sal??, O quitter. ...

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm still trying to work out Recip (Erdogan?) sal??, O quitter. ...

A bit of legal Latin doggerel for 'the thing speaks for itself'

Bit like Res judicata (when something has already been the subject of a legal ruling) - which led to a priceless secretarial malapropism - she heard that phrase in a dictation and typed it as "Ray and Judy Carter".... .which caused everyone to be puzzled for a while as to who these two new mystery witnesses might be. Lovely couple, the Carters...