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Death By Frog


ToM Dracone

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A rana necatus equus mortuus medico declaratus est.

 

Most entertaining Latin example sentence to date. I burst out laughing as Dr. Jones wrote it on the board (the original had the horse killing the frog, but we decided that made too much sense). Translation on request, but I'd love for someone to try it first ...

 

I really do need to make a language category.

–ToM

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Ok... I dunno Latin, but seeing as English is derived from it, it won't be that hard... I suppose...

 

A Bee got nectar from a dead horse with medical problems from declaring 'It is!'

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... I'm afraid not. :blink: The dead horse is right, though. And also, English isn't derived from Latin ... it's Germanic, not Romance.

 

Anyone else? Knowledge of Latin is somewhat necessary ... :P

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Hmmm

The Frog killed the horse by saying "medicine"? or did the frog give tyhe horse an overdose? I do not know what medicio means. My class hasn't learned that one yet.

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Latin dictionaries are your frieeeeends ... :P

 

A hint: look at the numbers, genders, and cases of the word. Everything with the same number, gender, and case (in this sentence) is related.

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Yeah, well the only dictionary I have is in the back of my textbook, which i didnt have on hand. I checked, and Medicamen, medicaminis, n means drug or medicine, and medicina, medicinae, f, means medicine. So The frog killed the horse that spoke with an overdose of deadly drugs. Still not sure.

 

EDIT: I know what it means. "The frog killed the horse, who was then pronounced dead by the doctor." or something very close to that.

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Very close: "The horse killed by the frog was declared dead by the doctor."

 

As I said, pay attention to the cases – equus is a nominative, and a rana is an ablative of personal agent. Necatus is also a perfect passive participle, not a verb, but the essence was correct. :D

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Oh, didn't think that other comment went through. And yes, I did attempt to use a Latin dictionary, but I couldn't find it before I had to leave. :o

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