Ideas for memes (Whatsapp Roman stickers)

[meisenimverbis]

Latine disce.

It doesn't make sense... I thought of Latinum as in sermonem Latinum... Latine means "in Latin", as an adverb, right? Lewis & Short give Latino for in Latin, and they don't have Latine (in Perseus)... My doubt is more toward Latinitas, but I'm not sure if "Latinitatem discere" makes sense. However, perhaps I should use "et sermonem Latinum disce", not suppressing the sermo.

 

[Issacus Divus]

Well, you use Latin for “in Latin”, like loquor latine.

 

[Bitmap]

It doesn't make sense... I thought of Latinum as in sermonem Latinum... Latine means "in Latin", as an adverb, right?

Latine is the adverb of Latinus, -a, -um and "to learn Latin" is Latine discere, just like "to teach Latin" is Latine docere, "to know Latin" is Latine scire and "to translate into Latin" is Latine vertere.

 

[meisenimverbis]

Maybe short for Latine loqui discere/docere... This does make sense. So,
aequam serva mentem et Latine disce
would be the final expression.

 

[Bitmap]

Theoretically, it should be possible to say "linguam Latinam discere" or "sermonem Latinum discere", but it would be unnecessarily long and I can't find any examples of discere with linguam or sermonem, either.

 

[meisenimverbis]

Well, you use Latin for “in Latin”, like loquor latine.

I always took "Latine loqui" as an idiomatic way to say it. In Portuguese it is possible to say "falar em português" ('em português' being the adverb), though the idiomatic way to say "to speak/to learn Portuguese" in Portuguese would be "falar/aprender português". But the "Latine scire" and the "Latine vertere" that Bitmap mentioned changed my perspective...

 

[Bitmap]

(n.b. you can also say vertere in Latinum (sermonem))

 

[Bitmap]

Incidentally, aequam serva mentem et linguam disce Latinam would be an hexameter.

 

[meisenimverbis]

This cannot be despised!

 

[meisenimverbis]

I think I'll do both.

aequam serva mentem et Latine disce
&
aequam serva mentem et linguam disce Latinam

 

[meisenimverbis]

Okay, now.. How would you say:
"I hate mondays",
in Latin idiom?

(Or, let's say, for an example: "I hate non-feriales" (?)... Does this make sense?)

 

[Bitmap]

Okay, now.. How would you say:
"I hate mondays",
in Latin idiom?

odi dies lunae.

(Or, let's say, for an example: "I hate non-feriales" (?)... Does this make sense?)

odi dies negotiosos.

 

[meisenimverbis]

By the way, here go the keep calm ones...
(The statue isn't Roman though... But there's none better than this one!)

 

[meisenimverbis]

What would you have Sol (or Helios) to say as a greeting?

 

[Bitmap]

Salve

 

[meisenimverbis]

Salve

It might be, but...

I made one with "have Heli! quo vadis?", but still it's.. kind of lazy.

 

[Pacifica]

have Heli

Did you mean "What would you say to Sol (or Helios) as a greeting?" rather than "What would you have Sol (or Helios) say as a greeting?"

 

[meisenimverbis]

Did you mean "What would you say to Sol (or Helios) as a greeting?" rather than "What would you have Sol (or Helios) say as a greeting?"

Both will do. First I though of him saying something. But then...

I also thought about a dialogue: "Hey, Helios! Where are you going?" Helios: "You know, same old, same old..."
I just don't have any idea of how a Roman would say "same old, same old"...

 

[Pacifica]

Maybe semper eodem, semper eodem...

 

[meisenimverbis]

Maybe semper eodem, semper eodem...

lol

I do like it...