"Does anyone here speak Latin?" Topic

I want to translate a motto in to Latin, specifically:

Roll F * * k ing sixes!

It's our club's unofficial motto and I think it would be a hoot to put it on a t-shirt.

Have you tried Google Translate?

According to Google Translate:

Volvunt *ing seni!

I believe you are looking for a form of the words "Irrumo" or "Futuo". However these are the infinitives and I have no idea how to form the attributive.

I wold go with Caesar's verbing. Senio -onis (a group of 6, 6 on dice) is 3rd declension, plural would be seniones. F-bleep in Latin idiom is typically futuare, the gerund form would be used here as the adjective; gerunds have no plural cases, and so in this sentence would not agree in number with the plural noun.

For proper dramatic emphasis, the verb should go last:

Futuum seniones iactare!

Although you could do literal translation word order if you prefer:

Iactare futuum seniones!

Ollray uckingfay ixessay!

I've been teaching Latin for nearly 30 years, so I'll give it a go:

Volvite sena defutuentia!

The Google translate result above meant something like "groups of six men !#!#ing roll"

You want "volvite" because you are ordering more than one thing to roll, so you need an imperative plural.

If it were only one six, you'd say "sex", but the only way to indicate several sixes is to use the group adjective senus, making it neuter plural (sets of 6 things) accusative, as it is the direct object of roll.

Defutuo is a rude word meaning "copulate" and the neuter plural participle (ing) ending would be entia in this conjugation of the verb.

I attended the John Cleese School of Latin for Roman Legionnaires and Resident Hebrews.

Does that count?

Minimo, your seniones is probably better than my Sena, but. !#$@-ing in this case is a present participle, not a gerund, as particles are for adjective use, and gerunds for verbal nouns (futuum is a supine form anyway, which can only be used with verbs of motion)

Also depends if your syntax is ordering the dice to roll sixes or the dice-thrower to roll them.

Yes indeed. The roller would be getting a volve

"Motion towards……."

Either MiniMo is faking it, or he knows what he's talking about.
My money is on the latter. But let him and the good doctor sort it out.

Don't forget to precede your command with
"Aliae (plural) iacta sunt!"
(Maybe….)

Okay, so if the command is for the player not for the dice, is it then

Volve sena defutentia

?

And thanks everyone. I can spell Latin and there ends my formal knowledge of the language!

VI VI VI's!

Or if you need to roll 10's:

X X X's!

(Not sure if there apostrophes in Latin… ;-)

I think Justin had it right.

"Latin is a dead tongue …"

"As dead as it can be…"

"First it killed the Romans …"

"Now it's killing Me !"

IIRC the old school day saying use go …

The only Latin you need to know:
Cave canem
Est taberna oppidum

Having given this weighty thought…
My Latin ended with Cicero in Catholic school, so some of the more … colorful phrases eluded my education.

****ing would be a gerund, IF the dice were engaging in carnal activity.
Did the Romans use **** as a term of general abuse, or were their exasperated insults of a different nature?
We all know people who use **** as a verb, noun, adjective, adverb, conjunction etc, sometimes in the same sentence. Did the Romans use the same in Latin? Bearing in mind the many case endings of course.

If Roman terms of abuse were of a different nature than carnal, perhaps we're simply reaching too far. General coarse language may be sufficient.

@Winston, miniMo was faking it, sort of. She spends more time reading and composing in Greek than in Latin. My brain blipped and I used the imperative ending for a deponent verb which looks a lot like the infinitive.

Proper form would be:
Iacte ______ seniones!

(or Volve if you don't want to echo Caesar)

I'm still meditating on the bleeping.

Now that escalated quickly :))

I don't think that the f-word was commonly used in classical Latin. In German the English F-word is commonly a S-word (Scheiß-), so in German you'd rather say "Wirf deine s***-Sechser". That could lead to "Iacte cacatae seniones".
But that's all mere speculation, of course.

Funny topic nevertheless, maybe there is someone out there knowing about rude Latin. Aurea prima sat'ast aetas … or rather DI COEPTIS MEIS ADSPIRATE …

After further meditation and digging into Latin idiom (and usung the Latin imperative ending for an -a verb, not the Greek):

Iacta seniones glubentes!

Participle of glubo, when used vulgarly, literally means to peel back the foreskin, and in common usage applied like our F'ing. Putting that word at the end of the sentence for emphasis.

OOuch, very embarassing.
My "Suggestion" should read "IACTA SENIONES CACATOS".
thanks to all Latin teachers for their patience …

Corruo senio, irrumator!

Roll sixes, f*¢ker!

Wyatt

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