| John the OFM | 11 Aug 2014 7:45 p.m. PST |
I will be Hasdrubal in a game this Saturday… |
| Caesar | 11 Aug 2014 7:54 p.m. PST |
It would be impolite in mixed company. |
| Repiqueone | 11 Aug 2014 7:56 p.m. PST |
Arrivederci, Roma! Actually, the Carthaginians spoke Punic, which probably means they used a lot of puns. So you could probably say you were going to kick Scipio in his Afric-anus! |
 miniMo  | 11 Aug 2014 7:58 p.m. PST |
Sadly, we only know a few scattered words of the Punic language, and not much about the language structure and grammar. Closest pidgin guess: "Abed Roma!" Presuming that as very multi-lingual traders, they would have called other states by their name in their own language. |
| Sobieski | 11 Aug 2014 10:40 p.m. PST |
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| Two Owl Bob | 11 Aug 2014 11:58 p.m. PST |
Surely any Carthaginian worth his salt would declaim his epigrams in Greek, to make it easy for his biographer… |
 Doms Decals  | 12 Aug 2014 2:10 a.m. PST |
I'd stick with Romanes eunt domus…. |
| Dave Jackson | 12 Aug 2014 3:27 a.m. PST |
Oh come on people…."throatwarbler mangrove…" |
| Rhysius Cambrensis | 12 Aug 2014 4:40 a.m. PST |
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| Chalfant | 12 Aug 2014 5:07 a.m. PST |
I'll give +1 to Sobieski. John, good fortune to you… make the Romans weep! Clottin' Romans. Chalfant |
| Sobieski | 12 Aug 2014 5:37 a.m. PST |
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 Lluis of Minairons | 12 Aug 2014 6:08 a.m. PST |
Perhaps little is known of old Carthaginian language ( link ), but you might take the words from modern Maltese ( link ), allegedly derived from the former. Given you're going not to do a speech but use a few expressions only, maybe any other Semitic language would also do the job, such as modern Hebrew or Arabic? |
| Doms Decals | 12 Aug 2014 6:19 a.m. PST |
Failing that, you can always resort to gestures…. ;-) |
| Chalfant | 12 Aug 2014 6:49 a.m. PST |
Rubs hands together, points at Roman town…. laughs maniacally. Chalfant |
| Korvessa | 12 Aug 2014 11:15 a.m. PST |
You can always quote "Alice's Restaurant:"
And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I
Wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
Guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and
He started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down
Yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,
Sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy." |
| Lluis of Minairons | 12 Aug 2014 2:11 p.m. PST |
In Maltese: Ruma għandhom jinqerdu, link |
 Bobgnar | 12 Aug 2014 5:56 p.m. PST |
Maybe the upper class spoke Greek Ρώμη πρέπει να καταστραφεί |
| John the OFM | 12 Aug 2014 8:04 p.m. PST |
Ruma għandhom jinqerdu, Thanks! I will use that, but will make no promises about my pronunciation or accent. |
