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    Latin for All Occasions

    From Cocktail-Party Banter to Climbing the Corporate Ladder to Online Dating-- Everything You'll Ever Need to Say in Perfect Latin

    Author Henry Beard
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Avery
    On sale Aug 19, 2004 | 176 Pages | 9781592400805
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    With more than 200,000 copies in print, Latin for All Occasions and its follow-up, Latin for Even More Occasions, have helped scores of readers harness the language of Caesar and Cicero. Impress your boss with Occupational Latin (Lingua Latina Occupationi); sell your product with Sales Latin (Lingua Latina Mercatoria); flirt with your classics professor with Sensual Latin (Lingua Latina Libidinosa); look like the hipster you are with Pop-Cultural Latin (Lingua Latina Popularis); survive the holidays with Familial Latin (Lingua Latina Domestica) and Celebrational Latin (Lingua Latina Festiva). It’s all here, whether you’re a student of the language or just want to talk like one.

    From cocktail-party banter to climbing the corporate ladder to online dating, Latin for All Occasions features dozens of handy sections, including Las Vegas Latin, Latin for Golfers, Latin for Breakups, Latin for the Politically Correct, and much, much more. In one easy-to-use volume, National Lampoon founder Henry Beard presents hundreds of listings rendered in grammatically accurate classical Latin, with a foolproof pronunciation guide.

    Who says Latin is a dead language? From the comic genius who brought us X-Treme Latin comes Latin for All Occasions, guaranteed to help readers delight their friends, insult their enemies, and elevate the public discourse.

    Latin for All OccasionsI. Conversational Latin
    II. Informational Latin
    III. Occupational Latin
    IV. Recreational Latin
    V. Practical Latin
    VI. Tactical Latin
    VII. Cultural Latin
    VIII. Social Latin
    IX. Sensual Latin
    X. Gastronomical Latin
    XI. Familial Latin
    XII. Formal Latin
    XIII. Casual Latin
    XIV. Personal Latin
    XV. Convivial Latin
    XVI. International Latin
    XVII. Essential Latin
    XVIII. Pop-Cultural Latin
    XIX. Celebrational Latin
    XX. A Brief Guide to Latin Pronunciation
    I.
    Conversational Latin
    Lingua Latina Conlocutioni

    Cocktail Party Chitchat
    Hot enough for you?
    Satine caloris tibi dies est?
    Run into much traffic on the way over?
    Eratne turba magna vehiculorum obviam tibi venienti huc?
    What do you think I paid for this watch?
    Quanto putas mihi stetisse hoc horologium carpale?
    You know what I think? I think . . .
    Visne scire quid credem? Credo . . .
    that all wrestling is fixed.
    luctationes omnes praestitutas esse.
    that flying saucers are real.
    astronaves orbiculares exsistere.
    that Elvis is still alive.
    Elvem ipsum etiam vivere.
    that the weather has been altered by rocket launches.
    missiones pyraulorum statum caeli mutavisse.
    that no one?s barbecue sauce is better than mine.
    neminem facere liquamen assatorium melius quam meum.

    Conversation Fillers
    Is that so?
    Ain tu?
    Really?
    Vero?
    You don?t say!
    Dic! Itane est?
    You can say that again!
    Hercle qui tu recte dicis!
    You know what they say . . .
    Ut proverbium loquitur vetus . . .
    here today, gone tomorrow.
    quod adest hodie, cras aberit.
    seen one, seen them all.
    uno cum noris, omnia noris.
    what goes around, comes around.
    circumit ad idem, unde profectum est, reveniet.
    que sera, sera.
    quod fiet, fiet.

    Conversation Enders
    God! Look at the time! My wife will kill me!
    Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!
    Excuse me. I?ve got to see a man about a dog.
    Mihi ignosce. Nunc est mihi cum quodam negotium de cane.
    Darn! There goes my beeper!
    Heu! Tintinnuntius meus sonat!
    I?m outta here.
    Abeo.
    Have a nice day.
    Sit hic dies tibi iucundus.
    Pithy Latin Expressions
    By that very fact.
    Ipso facto.
    No way.
    Nullo modo.
    Read my lips.
    Lege labia.
    A done deal.
    Pactum factum.
    Fat chance.
    Forsitan fiat.
    Accidentally on purpose.
    Casu consulto.
    Royally screwed.
    Raptus regaliter.
    In a world of hurt.
    Oppido dolens.
    Hopefully.
    Spes est.
    Copyright © 2004 by Henry Beard. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
    Henry Beard founded the National Lampoon along with Doug Kenney and Rob Hoffmann. Prior to National Lampoon, Beard collaborated with Kenney at the Harvard Lampoon during the late 1960s, producing nationally distributed parodies of Life and Time magazines and a book-length parody of The Lord of the Rings called Bored of the Rings. Since leaving National Lampoon, Beard has authored and co-authored over 30 humor books. View titles by Henry Beard

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    With more than 200,000 copies in print, Latin for All Occasions and its follow-up, Latin for Even More Occasions, have helped scores of readers harness the language of Caesar and Cicero. Impress your boss with Occupational Latin (Lingua Latina Occupationi); sell your product with Sales Latin (Lingua Latina Mercatoria); flirt with your classics professor with Sensual Latin (Lingua Latina Libidinosa); look like the hipster you are with Pop-Cultural Latin (Lingua Latina Popularis); survive the holidays with Familial Latin (Lingua Latina Domestica) and Celebrational Latin (Lingua Latina Festiva). It’s all here, whether you’re a student of the language or just want to talk like one.

    From cocktail-party banter to climbing the corporate ladder to online dating, Latin for All Occasions features dozens of handy sections, including Las Vegas Latin, Latin for Golfers, Latin for Breakups, Latin for the Politically Correct, and much, much more. In one easy-to-use volume, National Lampoon founder Henry Beard presents hundreds of listings rendered in grammatically accurate classical Latin, with a foolproof pronunciation guide.

    Who says Latin is a dead language? From the comic genius who brought us X-Treme Latin comes Latin for All Occasions, guaranteed to help readers delight their friends, insult their enemies, and elevate the public discourse.

    Table of Contents

    Latin for All OccasionsI. Conversational Latin
    II. Informational Latin
    III. Occupational Latin
    IV. Recreational Latin
    V. Practical Latin
    VI. Tactical Latin
    VII. Cultural Latin
    VIII. Social Latin
    IX. Sensual Latin
    X. Gastronomical Latin
    XI. Familial Latin
    XII. Formal Latin
    XIII. Casual Latin
    XIV. Personal Latin
    XV. Convivial Latin
    XVI. International Latin
    XVII. Essential Latin
    XVIII. Pop-Cultural Latin
    XIX. Celebrational Latin
    XX. A Brief Guide to Latin Pronunciation

    Excerpt

    I.
    Conversational Latin
    Lingua Latina Conlocutioni

    Cocktail Party Chitchat
    Hot enough for you?
    Satine caloris tibi dies est?
    Run into much traffic on the way over?
    Eratne turba magna vehiculorum obviam tibi venienti huc?
    What do you think I paid for this watch?
    Quanto putas mihi stetisse hoc horologium carpale?
    You know what I think? I think . . .
    Visne scire quid credem? Credo . . .
    that all wrestling is fixed.
    luctationes omnes praestitutas esse.
    that flying saucers are real.
    astronaves orbiculares exsistere.
    that Elvis is still alive.
    Elvem ipsum etiam vivere.
    that the weather has been altered by rocket launches.
    missiones pyraulorum statum caeli mutavisse.
    that no one?s barbecue sauce is better than mine.
    neminem facere liquamen assatorium melius quam meum.

    Conversation Fillers
    Is that so?
    Ain tu?
    Really?
    Vero?
    You don?t say!
    Dic! Itane est?
    You can say that again!
    Hercle qui tu recte dicis!
    You know what they say . . .
    Ut proverbium loquitur vetus . . .
    here today, gone tomorrow.
    quod adest hodie, cras aberit.
    seen one, seen them all.
    uno cum noris, omnia noris.
    what goes around, comes around.
    circumit ad idem, unde profectum est, reveniet.
    que sera, sera.
    quod fiet, fiet.

    Conversation Enders
    God! Look at the time! My wife will kill me!
    Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!
    Excuse me. I?ve got to see a man about a dog.
    Mihi ignosce. Nunc est mihi cum quodam negotium de cane.
    Darn! There goes my beeper!
    Heu! Tintinnuntius meus sonat!
    I?m outta here.
    Abeo.
    Have a nice day.
    Sit hic dies tibi iucundus.
    Pithy Latin Expressions
    By that very fact.
    Ipso facto.
    No way.
    Nullo modo.
    Read my lips.
    Lege labia.
    A done deal.
    Pactum factum.
    Fat chance.
    Forsitan fiat.
    Accidentally on purpose.
    Casu consulto.
    Royally screwed.
    Raptus regaliter.
    In a world of hurt.
    Oppido dolens.
    Hopefully.
    Spes est.
    Copyright © 2004 by Henry Beard. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

    Author

    Henry Beard founded the National Lampoon along with Doug Kenney and Rob Hoffmann. Prior to National Lampoon, Beard collaborated with Kenney at the Harvard Lampoon during the late 1960s, producing nationally distributed parodies of Life and Time magazines and a book-length parody of The Lord of the Rings called Bored of the Rings. Since leaving National Lampoon, Beard has authored and co-authored over 30 humor books. View titles by Henry Beard

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