Let's study the Chinese poetry

[Maxwell Chen]

A story in which each syllable is pronounced /shi/ The screenshot[^].

Maxwell Chen

modified on Thursday, November 4, 2010 5:09 AM

[Mark_Wallace]

Shi ma! That's a keeper!

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[Johnny J]

Gesundheit! :-D

1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15 y0u r3411y n33d 70 g37 14!d Gotta run; I've got people to do and things to see... Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house... Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!

[Rage]

Johnny J. wrote:

Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo

:laugh:

[Mark_Wallace]

Rage wrote:

crustum Etruscum

IIRC, that's pizza, and the "sis" implies an imperative, so it's "give me a pizza with everything!" Like it.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[Rage]

To be precise: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/omnibus.html[^]

Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo.
I'll have a pizza with everything on it.

It is indeed the pizza translation that made me laugh :)

[Mark_Wallace]

Rage wrote:

Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo.
I'll have a pizza with everything on it.

Sort of. Da = Give (could be imperative or a simple nominative). mihi = to me. sis = not really translatable in this context, but "of you" or "you are" -- it closes the deal on the verb being imperative (which "I'll have" isn't). "I'll have" would be "volo" or "accipiam".

I can't believe I remember this completely useless information!