"What is the Latin for "It's all about me!"" Topic
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| John the OFM | 08 Dec 2015 9:37 a.m. PST |
It would make a good motto for some characters in history or sports. I could throw my own translation together which would be about 5 words long. After all, it's only been almost 50 years…
I want something pithy and … laconic. Like all the best Latin catch phrases are. |
 Saber6   | 08 Dec 2015 9:46 a.m. PST |
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| TNE2300 | 08 Dec 2015 9:53 a.m. PST |
eliminate the contraction
and you get something a bit easier to say It is all about me : Est de me add the exclamation point
and not so much It is all about me! : Is est totus circa me! |
 Editor in Chief Bill  | 08 Dec 2015 10:45 a.m. PST |
I thought it was "OFM"  |
| Toronto48 | 08 Dec 2015 10:53 a.m. PST |
A more literal translation that would fit most situations is Id est omni de me This is all about me |
 Doms Decals  | 08 Dec 2015 11:06 a.m. PST |
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| Martian Root Canal | 08 Dec 2015 11:15 a.m. PST |
Omnes de me All things (are) about me. Latin speakers and writers often leave out the verb in statements of 'being'. I'd argue that omnes should be used as the missing word 'res' is there (5th declension f.). I could also argue for omnia as the neuter plural in using omnes as an abstract noun. |
| Toronto48 | 08 Dec 2015 12:00 p.m. PST |
Leaving out the verb or ignoring sentence structure would be acceptable in everyday conversation If the statement was made as a formal declaration in an oration, say before the Senate, correct grammar and syntax would be essential; to show both your own education and the importance of what you are saying. |
| Terrement | 08 Dec 2015 1:35 p.m. PST |
"It'sway allway aboutway emay" Of course, that's in pig Latin. |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 08 Dec 2015 1:37 p.m. PST |
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| Zargon | 08 Dec 2015 2:44 p.m. PST |
This one John?
..Mea Culpa..
Does that sound right? I think in the right context it would be heavily laconic and most pithy. 8D |
| Last Hussar | 14 Dec 2015 5:16 p.m. PST |
Surely Oinkus Oinkus is Pig Latin? |
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