That one's "de mortuis nil nisi bonum [dicendum est]." I learned it from Naomi Chana, a favourite Angel commentator of mine, who paraphrased it as "you don't talk smack about dead people."
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Well, okay, Z...
Sumus Quod Sumus ("we are what we are," the motto of Lake Wobegon) is sort of my default reply whenever Latin comes up, even tangentially. |
It was a greek saying originally,first spakethed by Chilon of Sparta.
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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El stampinium thingamanus.
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To get back to the original question...
Potato. |
A fish?
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Three fish.
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Ha! Full house, aces over!
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Sorry, but my Royal Fizzbin trumps all!
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Not so fast.
Octavo. Read 'em and weep ;) |
*reads it and explodes*
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Allameraine!
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Hmm, what word is so powerful, so shocking that it trumps "allamaraine?"
NI! |
Curses.
I shall have to say to you: jujuflop. |
Sorry, but I think Ni trumps all. Jujuflop is down there with shazbot.
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You force my hand.
Belgium, or if that won't do it... ...Nephelokokkygian! |
Ooooh, Ni versus Belgium, there's a poll waiting to be made by someone else.
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Aaaand that brings me neatly round to...
Mornington Crescent. |
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