>Nice. BTW, its amusing that the DSM motto is apparently 'don't take
>any wooden nickles', though I wonder how many parents too impressed
>with their own place in the galaxy whine about the lack of gravitas.
>Still, it's better than 'Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.'

"What's this then? 'Romanes eunt domus'? 'People called Romanes, they go, the 'ouse'?"

"It says 'Romans go home.'"

"No it doesn't! What's the Latin for Roman? Come on, come on!"

"Er, Romanus!"

"Vocative plural of Romanus is?"

"Er, er, Romani!"

"Eunt? What's eunt? Conjugate the verb 'to go'!"

"Er, ire... er... eo, is, it, imus, itis, eunt."

"So 'eunt' is... ?"

"Third person plural present indicative, 'they go'."

"But 'Romans go home' is an order! So you must use... ?"

"Aaaah! The imperative!"

"Which is... ?"

"Aaaah! Er, er, i!"

"How many Romans?"

"Aaaaaah! Plural! Plural! Er, ite!"

"Domus? Nominative? 'Go home' is motion towards, isn't it?!"

"Dative! - Aaaah, not the dative, not the dative, er, er, accusative! Domum!"

"But domus takes the locative, which is... ?"

"Er, domum!"

"Understand? Now write it out a 'undred times."

"Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir."

"Hail Caesar. And if it's not done by sunrise I'll cut your balls off."

>Speaking of Latin, I seem to have forgotten what 'Ludo * Fore *
>Putavimus' means, and the online translator says it means 'Game/School
>* would be * Thought', which I'm pretty sure is at least partially
>wrong.

"We Thought It Would Be Fun".

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