- Hardcover: 112 pages
- Publisher: Villard Books; 1st edition (Nov 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0679406743
- ISBN-13: 978-0679406747
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 13.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,741,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Oh, darn, there I go again! You know, I just can't help speaking Latin.
Ecce, denuo ago, sicut soleo! Non enim possum facere quin Latine loquar.
It's so second nature to me, sometimes I don't even know I'm doing it!
Adeo huius mihi rei natura facta est, ut interdum nesciam quidem me sic facere!
So you thought you'd already soaked up as much scire facere (savoir faire) as you could by reading that howlingly funny yet highly literate guide to all things Latin, the best-selling Latin for All Occasions. Well, you still have some things to learn. Henry Beard, having already freed former altar boys and Latin-class alumni and alumnae from their previously held assumption that Latin is dead, is now going all out to bring this formerly moribund language into the twentieth century. Henricus has realized that he simply cannot stop when there are people in this world who don't know how to say. "Please don't squeeze the Charmin!" in Latin ("Sis, noli Volvivoluptatem comprimere!"), so he has prepared an entirely new, even funnier way to deal with all possible situations. You can impress your friends as never before on St. Patrick's Day when you yell, "Hibernia in aeternum!" ("Erin, go bragh!") and wow a tour guide by musing, "Scire velim ubi taberna munusculorum sit" ("I wonder where the gift shop is"). Break into show biz with your impressions of Marlon Brando, "Proeliator fuissem" ("I could've been a contender"); Cary Grant, "ludaea, ludaea, ludaea" ("Judy, Judy, Judy"); and James Cagney. "Tu, rattus turpis!" ("You dirty rat!"). Breeze by the stiffest of maitre d's by saying, 'Cauponas percenseo" ("I'm a restaurant reviewer"). Your Latin education simply isn't complete without it.
Tete oblecta! (Have fun!)
Ecce, denuo ago, sicut soleo! Non enim possum facere quin Latine loquar.
It's so second nature to me, sometimes I don't even know I'm doing it!
Adeo huius mihi rei natura facta est, ut interdum nesciam quidem me sic facere!
So you thought you'd already soaked up as much scire facere (savoir faire) as you could by reading that howlingly funny yet highly literate guide to all things Latin, the best-selling Latin for All Occasions. Well, you still have some things to learn. Henry Beard, having already freed former altar boys and Latin-class alumni and alumnae from their previously held assumption that Latin is dead, is now going all out to bring this formerly moribund language into the twentieth century. Henricus has realized that he simply cannot stop when there are people in this world who don't know how to say. "Please don't squeeze the Charmin!" in Latin ("Sis, noli Volvivoluptatem comprimere!"), so he has prepared an entirely new, even funnier way to deal with all possible situations. You can impress your friends as never before on St. Patrick's Day when you yell, "Hibernia in aeternum!" ("Erin, go bragh!") and wow a tour guide by musing, "Scire velim ubi taberna munusculorum sit" ("I wonder where the gift shop is"). Break into show biz with your impressions of Marlon Brando, "Proeliator fuissem" ("I could've been a contender"); Cary Grant, "ludaea, ludaea, ludaea" ("Judy, Judy, Judy"); and James Cagney. "Tu, rattus turpis!" ("You dirty rat!"). Breeze by the stiffest of maitre d's by saying, 'Cauponas percenseo" ("I'm a restaurant reviewer"). Your Latin education simply isn't complete without it.
Tete oblecta! (Have fun!)
From the Back Cover
Oh, darn, there I go again! You know, I just can't help speaking Latin.
'Ecce, denuo ago, sicut soleo! Non enim possum facere quin Latine loquar'.
It's so second nature to me, sometimes I don't even know I'm doing it!
'Adeo huius mihi rei natura facta est, ut interdum nesciam quidem me sic facere!'
So you thought you'd already soaked up as much 'scire facere' (savoir faire) as you could by reading that howlingly funny yet highly literate guide to all things Latin, the best-selling 'Latin for all Occasions'. Well, you still have some things to learn. Henry Beard, having already freed former schoolboys and schoolgirls from their previously held assumption that Latin is dead, is now going all out to bring this formerly moribund language into the twentieth century. Henricus has realised that he simply cannot stop when there are people in this world who don't know how to say, 'Is that scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?' in Latin (''Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?''). So he has prepared an entirely new, even funnier way to deal with all possible situations. You can impress your friends as never before on St. Patrick's Day when you yell, ''Hibernia in aeternum'' ('Erin, go bragh!') and wow a tour guide by musing, ''Scire velim ubi taberna munuscolorum sit'' ('I wonder where the gift shop is'). Break into show biz with your impression of Marlon Brando, ' 'Proeliator fuissem'' ('I could've been a contender'); Cary Grant, ''Iudea,Iudea,Iudea'' ('Judy, Judy, Judy'); and James Cagney, ''Tu, rattus turpis!'' ('You dirty rat!). Breeze by the stiffest of maitre d's by saying, 'Cauponas percenseo'' ('I'm a restaurant reviewer'). Your Latin education simply isn't complete without it.
'Tele oblecta!' (Have fun!)
HENRY BEARD spent eight harrowing years studying Latin. After confounding the English-language periodical 'National Lampoon' and writing a number of books in English, including 'Sailing: A Sailor's Dictionary' and ' Miss Piggy's Guide to Life', he is happy finally to have an opportunity to make some use of his knowledge of a language that really hasn't been all that helpful over the years, except for the time he suddenly realised that the thing he was about to order from the menu of a restaurant in Rome looked an awful lot like the Latin word for 'eel'. Mr. Beard resides in 'Novi Eboraci' (New York).
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After Beard's first book, 'Latin for All Occasions', one might say this book is a case of deja vu, or prius visum, as the Latin would have it.
Who said Latin wasn't useful? Henry Beard, in this volume and its predecessor, demonstrates that it is very useful, and not just for identifying a dish on a menu in Rome that looks suspiciously like the Latin word for 'eel'.
This volume begins on a fun note: French sounds even better in Latin:
Savoir faire = Scire facere
Nouveau riche = Novissime locupletatus
Merde! = Merda!
From there we proceed to philosophy:
Cogito, ergo sum
Sum, ergo edo.
Cogito sumere potum alterum.
(I think, therefore I am. I am, therefore I eat. I think I'll have another drink.)
And lest we forget, the memorable Latin phrase for use at a toga party:
Toga! Toga! Toga!
(memorise this, for it will be on the test)
There are things in this volume for sports fans, pop culture fans, those about to celebrate and those who want to be casual. If you want to sound intelligent while saying you think you've just spotted Elvis in the crowd, this book can tell you how to bring up the subject intelligently.
If Caesar had had this book, he might have rephrased his famous utterance as Veni, vidi, nates calce concidi! (I came, I saw, I kicked butt!).
Divinissimum est!
Proving once again, some people have far too much time on their hands. And we are more fortunate for that!
Who said Latin wasn't useful? Henry Beard, in this volume and its predecessor, demonstrates that it is very useful, and not just for identifying a dish on a menu in Rome that looks suspiciously like the Latin word for 'eel'.
This volume begins on a fun note: French sounds even better in Latin:
Savoir faire = Scire facere
Nouveau riche = Novissime locupletatus
Merde! = Merda!
From there we proceed to philosophy:
Cogito, ergo sum
Sum, ergo edo.
Cogito sumere potum alterum.
(I think, therefore I am. I am, therefore I eat. I think I'll have another drink.)
And lest we forget, the memorable Latin phrase for use at a toga party:
Toga! Toga! Toga!
(memorise this, for it will be on the test)
There are things in this volume for sports fans, pop culture fans, those about to celebrate and those who want to be casual. If you want to sound intelligent while saying you think you've just spotted Elvis in the crowd, this book can tell you how to bring up the subject intelligently.
If Caesar had had this book, he might have rephrased his famous utterance as Veni, vidi, nates calce concidi! (I came, I saw, I kicked butt!).
Divinissimum est!
Proving once again, some people have far too much time on their hands. And we are more fortunate for that!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After Beard's first book, 'Latin for All Occasions', one might say this book is a case of deja vu, or prius visum, as the Latin would have it.
Who said Latin wasn't useful? Henry Beard, in this volume and its predecessor, demonstrates that it is very useful, and not just for identifying a dish on a menu in Rome that looks suspiciously like the Latin word for 'eel'.
This volume begins on a fun note: French sounds even better in Latin:
Savoir faire = Scire facere
Nouveau riche = Novissime locupletatus
Merde! = Merda!
From there we proceed to philosophy:
Cogito, ergo sum
Sum, ergo edo.
Cogito sumere potum alterum.
(I think, therefore I am. I am, therefore I eat. I think I'll have another drink.)
And lest we forget, the memorable Latin phrase for use at a toga party:
Toga! Toga! Toga!
(memorise this, for it will be on the test)
There are things in this volume for sports fans, pop culture fans, those about to celebrate and those who want to be casual. If you want to sound intelligent while saying you think you've just spotted Elvis in the crowd, this book can tell you how to bring up the subject intelligently.
If Caesar had had this book, he might have rephrased his famous utterance as Veni, vidi, nates calce concidi! (I came, I saw, I kicked butt!).
Divinissimum est!
Proving once again, some people have far too much time on their hands. And we are more fortunate for that!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Deja vu
5 July 2003
Format:Hardcover
After Beard's first book, 'Latin for All Occasions', one might say this book is a case of deja vu, or prius visum, as the Latin would have it.
Who said Latin wasn't useful? Henry Beard, in this volume and its predecessor, demonstrates that it is very useful, and not just for identifying a dish on a menu in Rome that looks suspiciously like the Latin word for 'eel'.
This volume begins on a fun note: French sounds even better in Latin:
Savoir faire = Scire facere
Nouveau riche = Novissime locupletatus
Merde! = Merda!
From there we proceed to philosophy:
Cogito, ergo sum
Sum, ergo edo.
Cogito sumere potum alterum.
(I think, therefore I am. I am, therefore I eat. I think I'll have another drink.)
And lest we forget, the memorable Latin phrase for use at a toga party:
Toga! Toga! Toga!
(memorise this, for it will be on the test)
There are things in this volume for sports fans, pop culture fans, those about to celebrate and those who want to be casual. If you want to sound intelligent while saying you think you've just spotted Elvis in the crowd, this book can tell you how to bring up the subject intelligently.
If Caesar had had this book, he might have rephrased his famous utterance as Veni, vidi, nates calce concidi! (I came, I saw, I kicked butt!).
Divinissimum est!
Proving once again, some people have far too much time on their hands. And we are more fortunate for that!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A must-have for anyone who struggled through Latin 101
8 Sep 2000
Format:Hardcover
This book and its predecessor (Lingua Latina Occasionaibus Omnibus) will make anyone who struggled through Latin 101 the division of Gaul into three parts proud to be a Latin speaker. A great tool for Classics teachers who want to make Latin a living language for students doing translation, and wonderful for those of us who want to know how to say "I hate Astroturf" in the world's most distinguished language.
Quate Tuam Togam!!!
12 Oct 2006
Format:Hardcover
Having passed the first 2 years of Latin (failing the third miserably), AND having married a Latin teacher, you have to admit there IS a certain IRONY to that...and that's where Henry beard comes in...
His impeccable tongue-in-cheek manner of illustarting how Latin has been (and can be) used in our language is not only one of the best learning tools I have encountered, but also one of the most humorous!
He leaves no stone unturned in his pusuit to avail us of just how "commonplace" a "dead" language can be in everyday conversation.
He covers things such as sports, great books, snappy comebacks, and even a letter to Santa...!!!
He's like the George Carlin of ancient Rome...only without the blue language, (imho)...this is informative AND hilarious at the same time!
A must read..even if you never studied Latin (or failed it like I did)!
His impeccable tongue-in-cheek manner of illustarting how Latin has been (and can be) used in our language is not only one of the best learning tools I have encountered, but also one of the most humorous!
He leaves no stone unturned in his pusuit to avail us of just how "commonplace" a "dead" language can be in everyday conversation.
He covers things such as sports, great books, snappy comebacks, and even a letter to Santa...!!!
He's like the George Carlin of ancient Rome...only without the blue language, (imho)...this is informative AND hilarious at the same time!
A must read..even if you never studied Latin (or failed it like I did)!
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