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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd (1 Jul 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1843170973
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843170976
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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If your conversation lacks the Latin touch and you yearn to express yourself as the Romans did in days gone by, then "Laughable Latin" is guaranteed to relieve your verbal frustration. Ever wanted to know just how to ask 'are we nearly there yet?' (Paene advenimus), or enhance your philosophical side with 'Bibo ergo sum' (I drink, therefore I am) and really impress the little ones with your wisdom with 'Relinque me in pace' (Leave me in peace!). With over 450 Latin phrases, "Laughable Latin" is a humorous and essential guide to conversing in Latin, proving you don't need to be in Rome to speak as the Romans did.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Ludicrous Latin , 26 May 2008
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This is not a funny book.

My dictionary defines 'laughable' as 'producing scorn', therefore, the title of this book means - "Latin that produces scorn" which describes completely how I felt reading it. I had been hoping for "Latin that produces laughter" - how totally wrong I was.

Then again, maybe the whole thing's just an in-joke being played out on us, the purchasers, by the publisher?

This book's "humour" is so dire I was baffled why the publisher, Michael O'Mara, ever funded it. Then, on reading inside the front cover, I discovered that 'the witty Latin phrases' were compiled by Lesley O'Mara, the MD of said publisher... ah... the penny drops!

If you're like me, you'd expect a collection of witty, wise or even inspirational words (preferably a mix of each) as uttered by Ancient Romans or by sagacious folk ever since. If so, don't buy this book, it doesn't contain any of that stuff, but what it does contain is translations for things like:

"Have they had any barbarians around there lately?"
"You need some more urine on that cloth"
"Hey, he's groaning. He's not supposed to groan."
"No, I don't want goat's milk; that's for women."
"Can I rent a slave there?"
"No, it's not from the library; it's from my personal collection."

(Forgive me please for not bothering with translations for these 'witty' excerpts, and yes, the rest of the book IS just the same).

But perhaps the most revealing phrase comes tucked away at the back of the book, and this time I will include the translation...

"Scribo librum ad dirigendum per illas terras paganas. Pecuniam magnam librario importabit"
- meaning -
"I'm writing a guide book to these heathen lands. It will make a lot of money for the publisher."

Somehow I don't think they'll succeed.

So, never mind the few pennies it cost me to buy, my sympathy lies with Rose Williams, the Latin scholar who had to translate this tripe. I can live without those coins, but how can she live with this book? Oh, what we have to do for money...
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3.0 out of 5 stars mehercle!, 2 Aug 2009
The above reviewer takes this tripe way too seriously. Of course as 'wit' it is hardly Juvenal, but that's not the point. It's NOT an anthology of Latin quotations to pepper your tiresome discourse to the COE (who'd want to do that?... ). As the cover makes clear, it's a joke: BUT, vide many research papers, slightly naughty or stupid material DOES aid memorizartion of certain Latin syntactical structures that seem very foreign to learners. As to earners, as Beard's <Latin for all Occasions> plus sequels printed 200,000 copies , Ostende mihi pecuniam is a vain boast. And the phrases are shorter in this work and hence easier to unpack. Sic erimus postquam, etc.
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