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The Good Book Guide, November 2007
The Latin language is as alive as ever with this hilarious phrase book... essential for showing off.
Glasgow Extra Series, 7th Feb 2008
'really hits the laugh-out-loud spot'
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This delightfully amusing book consists of a series of comments and sayings rendered in English and then translated into Latin. These comments and sayings are grouped under various headings, such as "Flirting Online", "The Trouble with Love", "Insults", "Student Life", "At the Airport".
The sense of humour is always playful, sometimes dry, sometimes droll, sometimes whimsical, sometimes outrageous, and I cannot open up and glance into this book without immediately finding myself smiling at the very least.
It is difficult to say just why and how the fact that the comments and sayings, most of which are amusing one way or another in their own right, should be made even more amusing by being translated into Latin. Certainly, the fact that I studied Latin at school and can follow much of the Latin in the translations contributes to my amusement, and I suspect that much of this amusement arises from the contrast between the content of the Latin works I studied (Caesar, Virgil, Ovid, etc.) and the modern, daily-life content of this book.
"Hic habitat felicitas" might be saying a little too much, but only a little!
In summary, I feel that if you are the sort of person who appreciates playful, dry, intelligent humour, you are likely to enjoy this book; and that if you happen to have studied Latin at school, then you are likely to enjoy it even more.
The sense of humour is always playful, sometimes dry, sometimes droll, sometimes whimsical, sometimes outrageous, and I cannot open up and glance into this book without immediately finding myself smiling at the very least.
It is difficult to say just why and how the fact that the comments and sayings, most of which are amusing one way or another in their own right, should be made even more amusing by being translated into Latin. Certainly, the fact that I studied Latin at school and can follow much of the Latin in the translations contributes to my amusement, and I suspect that much of this amusement arises from the contrast between the content of the Latin works I studied (Caesar, Virgil, Ovid, etc.) and the modern, daily-life content of this book.
"Hic habitat felicitas" might be saying a little too much, but only a little!
In summary, I feel that if you are the sort of person who appreciates playful, dry, intelligent humour, you are likely to enjoy this book; and that if you happen to have studied Latin at school, then you are likely to enjoy it even more.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Better than most books of this ilk, although it did miss my favourite phrase;
"Ascendo tuum turpis!"
"Ascendo tuum turpis!"
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5 Aug 2011
Format:Hardcover
This delightfully amusing book consists of a series of comments and sayings rendered in English and then translated into Latin. These comments and sayings are grouped under various headings, such as "Flirting Online", "The Trouble with Love", "Insults", "Student Life", "At the Airport".
The sense of humour is always playful, sometimes dry, sometimes droll, sometimes whimsical, sometimes outrageous, and I cannot open up and glance into this book without immediately finding myself smiling at the very least.
It is difficult to say just why and how the fact that the comments and sayings, most of which are amusing one way or another in their own right, should be made even more amusing by being translated into Latin. Certainly, the fact that I studied Latin at school and can follow much of the Latin in the translations contributes to my amusement, and I suspect that much of this amusement arises from the contrast between the content of the Latin works I studied (Caesar, Virgil, Ovid, etc.) and the modern, daily-life content of this book.
"Hic habitat felicitas" might be saying a little too much, but only a little!
In summary, I feel that if you are the sort of person who appreciates playful, dry, intelligent humour, you are likely to enjoy this book; and that if you happen to have studied Latin at school, then you are likely to enjoy it even more.
The sense of humour is always playful, sometimes dry, sometimes droll, sometimes whimsical, sometimes outrageous, and I cannot open up and glance into this book without immediately finding myself smiling at the very least.
It is difficult to say just why and how the fact that the comments and sayings, most of which are amusing one way or another in their own right, should be made even more amusing by being translated into Latin. Certainly, the fact that I studied Latin at school and can follow much of the Latin in the translations contributes to my amusement, and I suspect that much of this amusement arises from the contrast between the content of the Latin works I studied (Caesar, Virgil, Ovid, etc.) and the modern, daily-life content of this book.
"Hic habitat felicitas" might be saying a little too much, but only a little!
In summary, I feel that if you are the sort of person who appreciates playful, dry, intelligent humour, you are likely to enjoy this book; and that if you happen to have studied Latin at school, then you are likely to enjoy it even more.
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