Deep13
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Wed Nov-11-09 01:48 PM
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can anyone here translate a phrase into Latin? |
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I never took it in high school.
The phrase is "If it's not on the record, it does not exist." I know things are phrased differently in Latin thann they are in English.
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Thu Nov-12-09 08:32 AM
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Thu Nov-12-09 08:40 AM
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2. Sorry, my Latin isn't that good anymore so I can't translate it. |
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If you think you've got a translation though, post it and I can will some fairly-high degree of accuracy read it well enough to know if it's right...or passibly-right for a HS Latin student.
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Thu Nov-12-09 02:16 PM
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Except for a few legal expressions, I don't know any Latin, how sentences are structured or basis verb tense.
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Thu Nov-12-09 02:40 PM
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5. I meant if you got a questionable translation... |
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I could tell you whether it was good enough. I mean I could pull out the books and throw something together but it'd be no better than my best guess and would likely be the Latin equivalent of Engrish.
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Thu Nov-12-09 02:19 PM
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4. "That doesn't say Romans go Home, it says romans are home going!" |
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Thu Nov-12-09 03:02 PM
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7. I thought we were the Judean People's Front. |
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Thu Nov-12-09 02:41 PM
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Thu Nov-12-09 04:30 PM
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8. Yeah, I looked at internet translation sites. |
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They either required a major download which I'm not willing to do assuming it would even work on an I-mac, or they only translated individual words. Since I know next to nothing about Latin, that really won't do it.
Thanks anyway.
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Thu Nov-12-09 04:51 PM
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9. Babel Fish is the usual first stop for translations, and free. But |
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they don't deal in latin. Black's Law Dictionary is your next possibility, which is online for $105. However, I have a print edition. Let me try it to see how close I can come, not with translation per se, but with a phrase that has a similar meaning. dc
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Thu Nov-12-09 04:58 PM
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10. Well, I don't see anything, and I have no idea what else to look at. |
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But the concept may be faulty. The general idea is that which is not recorded, or of record, may still exist, but it is not perfected. Perfected meaning given a priority over others. Or others rights. dc
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Thu Nov-12-09 05:37 PM
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Edited on Thu Nov-12-09 05:39 PM by ChickMagic
Non notare I think is not on record. Dang, it's been awhile.
Non exstare - doesn't exist?
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Thu Nov-12-09 06:08 PM
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12. Si non annale, non est? |
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If not (in) the annals, (negation) is?
Or maybe "Si non tabularia, non est," which has roughly the same meaning (the Romans had like 8 words for records and 3 for the act of writing things down).
Or, "Non persignit, non est," if it was not written down, it does not exist.
Hope that all helps, it's been a few years since I took Latin and I had to look some things up.
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Thu Nov-12-09 06:14 PM
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13. Si non scriptum, est nihil non. |
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Edited on Thu Nov-12-09 06:20 PM by pinto
I'm rusty, but this is close. "If no record, it is nothing."
Could be colloquially shortened to "Si non scriptum, nihil".
Or even "Non scriptum, nihil." which is more pointed - "No record, nothing".
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Thu Nov-12-09 07:23 PM
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14. I like your's better. |
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Thu Nov-12-09 07:56 PM
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15. Try this, using different English syntax to convey the same meaning |
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