Beautiful languages

[StasisInDarkness]

I'm a huge fan of Latin...for example, how beautiful is this?

"Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem"

(which I find apropos for these boards, as it translates to "Sorrowful is my soul even unto death")

[Dancing_in_rain]

Oh yes, latin is beautiful.

My favourite sentences, taken from the book "X-treme Latin"

Latin

c, ch = K
v = W

Due to global warming, my homework spontaneously combusted.
-Orbe terrarum nimum calefacto combustione hydrogonanthracum, pensum meum domesticum sua sponte flammam concepit

My homework contracted mad homework disease and had to be destroyed
- Necesse erat domesticum meum, quod incidit in rabiem pensi deleri

Your manner is oddly distracted
- Te geris mirum in modum neglegenter

You have an extremely strange sense of humour
- Inusitatissima iocaris

Hang in there!
-Perfer et obdura

What could possibly go wrong?
-Quid nobis infeliciter fieri potest?

The devil made me do it!
-Diabolus me coegit peccare!

It is required of you to go f*ck yourself
-Tu tibi futuendus es.

Go f*ck yourself
-Futue te ipsum

You who are about to go f*ck yourself, I salute you
-Tete fututure, te saluto

Resistance if futile. Prepare to be assimilated into th subjunctive.
-Resistere irritum est. Praeparate vos ad translationem in modum subiunctivum

We have entered! We shall have entered! Do be entering!
-Intravimus! Intraverimus! Intratote!

To be continued...
-Narratio resumetur

You probably don't understand a word we're saying; but so what?
-Verisimile est te haudquaquam intellegere quod dicimus; quid enim?

Have a nice day.
Sit iucundus tibi dies

No, no! it was me! It was me all along! I did it! I did it and I'm glad! Ha-ha, just kidding.
-Minime! Non est! Ego fui! Semper ego! Ego facinus feci! Atque gaudeo me fecisse! Hahahae! Tantummodo iocabar.

You never cease to amaze me with your deeply insightful remarks.
-Stupra fascino voanti torum pistrinum provolventem.
Really means: Go take a flying f*ck at a rolling doughnut

Why doesn't everyone recognize your genius?
-Qui futuis uxorem tuam foedam?
Really means: Why don't you go sc*ew your ugly wife?

Keep up the good work.
-Mande merdam et morere
Really means: Eat sh*t and die.

Baloney!
-Nugas!

Unleash hell!
-Solve lora infernis!

Pick your nose
-Carpe Narem

Catch some "z's"
-Cape somnum

Beware of work
-Cave Laborem

I stink, therefore I am
-Puteo ergo sum

Don't even think fo dissing me unless you speak latin.
- Abes etiam consilio insultandi mihi nisi latine loqui scias

Been there, done that
-Illuc ivi, illud feci

Visualize world conquest
- Habe ante oculos devictionem mundi

Save the unicorns.
-Conservetis unicornes

That's a load of bull and you know it!
-Merae fabulae sunt, et eas esse tales scis!

Are you dissing me?
-Insultasne tu miki?

Go ahead punk - make my day.
-Age, catamite - fac mihi hunc diem felicissimum

If today was a fish, I'd throw it back
-Si dies hodiernus esset piscis, reicerem

True, true
-Vero, vero

I'm thinking of taking a catapult into the school cafeteria...
-Cogit ferre catapultam in cenationem scholae

Procrastinate now
-Procrastina rem nunc

Gods are dead
-Di mortui sunt

It is as bad as you think and they are out to get you.
-Res tam malae sunt quam puntas et inimici re vera te persequuntur

Your nose may fall off
-Fieri potest ut nasus tuus decidat

Your head may explode
-Fieri potest ut caput tuum displodatur

Your brain may turn to mush
-Fieri potest ut cerebrum tuum liquefiat

You may start babling in Latin
-Fieri potest us Latine blaterare incipias

Actually, I'm a born again pagan
-Re vera, cultordenuo renatus deorum Romanorum antiqurum sum

I always ask myself, What would Julius Caesar do?
-Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar?

God forbid, a piano should fall on your head.
-Dii prohibeant ne clavicinium in caput tuum delabatur

I love it, I love it, I love it!
-Id amo, id amo, id amo!

Download the goddamn file, you bug-ridden piece of shit!
-Assume plicam damnatum, o tu moles muscaria muscerdarum!

If you freeze one more time, you're going straight to the landfill!
-Si denuo congeles, confestim ibis in fossam purgamentorum

Yeah? Well I've got an error message for you f*ckhead - you're about to be shut down improperly with a ball-peen hammer!
Sicine? Nunc age, tibi nuntium erroris habeo, stuprator - mox improprie sopieris malleolo!

It's a hunk of junk!
-Acervus inutilium est!

O malam fortunam!
-Oh bad luck!


But I love ukrainian, german and russian mixed together. Yes, such a mixture exists. It's called Dancing Lashai TUmbai, by Verkha Serduchka. Watch the video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkoU3...eature=related

How can you not love it?

DANZIG!

[JCC]

Latin.

'Destroy the world'.

Meh. Boring.

'Attera orbis terrarum!'

TIME TO CREAM YOUR PANTS!

[Clockwork]

Latin's cool, as is French, Japanese, and English. Though honestly, I think it does primarily depend on the speaker.

[Stormtrooper of Death]

I took four years of German so I'll say German.

[Wormboy]

I find spanish utterly boring sounding to be honest. Maybe it's because I'm living in Los Angeles and all I fucking hear is spanish. French is beautiful, so is German, Finnish, Hungarian and Russian (kind of) and I shall always have a special love of English.

[JCC]

I hate French. Awkard intonations, an accent that I cannot stand, ugh.

[Underwater Ophelia]

Originally Posted by JCC

I hate French. Awkard intonations, an accent that I cannot stand, ugh.

It's only awkward to people who don't know the language.

[JCC]

Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia

It's only awkward to people who don't know the language.

I'm learning the language and I'm pretty good at it, I just think it's one of the weaker languages.

[Underwater Ophelia]

Originally Posted by JCC

I'm learning the language and I'm pretty good at it, I just think it's one of the weaker languages.

I disagree, but ok.

[Delkaetre]

Latin. Partially because my favourite toast is in Latin. Can't remember the spelling, but the translation is as follows- "Peace, Serenity, and Deviant Sexual Practices!"
Other than that, Russian- Watching films like Nightwatch with subtitles instead of dubbing has given me an appreciation for the sound of the language. Wish I could speak it...

[silverbaal]

So many...I don't really think there is a language I don't find beautiful. Only those I haven't heard yet.

French
Italian
Latin
Portugese (only heard it sung)
Chinese (only when it's sung)
Russian (only heard it sung)
Irish (interesting spoken, beautiful sung)

Most languages aren't appealing when spoken, but are beautiful when spoken. At least not to me. Most of them, anyways.

I do enjoy watching films in their original language with English subs, rather than with dubbing. (Unless the dubs are unusually good- Like Hero, for example. I think that was dubbed, anyways.)

[Opteron_Man]

i love the sound of the German language.

[Godslayer Jillian]

Every language sounds best in different uses.
English is best for rhyming poetry.
Spanish is best for free and blank verse.
French is best for lovers.
Portuguese is best for casual talk.
Ancient chinese is excellent for writing.
German is best for boring philosophy.

[silverbaal]

Originally Posted by silverbaal

So many...I don't really think there is a language I don't find beautiful. Only those I haven't heard yet.

French
Italian
Latin
Portugese (only heard it sung)
Chinese (only when it's sung)
Russian (only heard it sung)
Irish (interesting spoken, beautiful sung)

Most languages aren't appealing when spoken, but are beautiful when spoken. At least not to me. Most of them, anyways.

I do enjoy watching films in their original language with English subs, rather than with dubbing. (Unless the dubs are unusually good- Like Hero, for example. I think that was dubbed, anyways.)

*but are beautiful when sung", lol.

[wonderland]

French, German, and Russian are all beautiful. I'm also very fond of Swedish and Old Norse, both of which I associate strongly with my childhood. Hungarian scares me, but I'd like to learn it. I go back and forth on whether I love or hate the sound of it.

[jestercel85]

Romanian and Castilian Spanish, I don't like the bastardized form spoken here in Texas though. I was raised around the Cuban side of my family so anything other than proper Spanish grates on my ears and my nerves.

[skullie]

Originally Posted by viscus

Any language can be beautiful if spoken or written by someone with a gift of eloquence. But personally, I'm a bit partial to Japanese, French, and Spanish.

Japanese, German, French and Chinese...^_^
And English when no one stutters....

[clockworkcoffin]

japanese. i'm slowly learning it

[Xombie]

German! It sounds harsh as hell but it's so beastly and beautiful.

[Mon Coeur Noir]

I dig on Japanese, Russian, Italian, German, and that weird clicky language that those tribesmen use.

[Xombie]

Haha. Swahili? It's something like that. A woman came to my school once to teach us Swahili culture and the language. I know that instead of K's they click their throat or something strange like that.

[SheWolf]

I'm very fond of Norwegian and Finnish. I can't speak Finnish, but I like the way it sounds.

[Tha Duckman]

English is HOT!!

[Pineapple_Juice]

English is the best for expressing oneself.
French only sounds good until you take three years of it and then it sounds like shit (I have done this).
I like Sign Language, which I don't think anybody has pointed out yet. Conversations are always lively and it's impossible to be shy. I hate it when people don't look at me when I'm talking to them, and in Sign it forces you to be outgoing and look at people when they're speaking. Plus facial expression is a form of grammar, so everyone has the most wonderful conversations, even if you're just asking someone where the bathroom is.