Pig Latin

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

Where I live it's translated as Through the thorns to the stars.

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

Don't say you've never heard of Per aspera ad astra?

[mosiacmango@lemm.ee]

Didn't ring any bells off hand like the others, nope.

Had to look it up.

[tal@lemmy.today]

There's some WP page I remember with common Latin phrases.

kagis

Okay, it's apparently now twenty WP pages, though there is one mega-page with all of them:

List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[fuglyduck@lemmy.world]

For the record, Deus ex Machina is more a specific literary device- literally a crane lowering a god to save the protagonist in Roman and Greek dramas.

To be fair they were more interested in telling a moral than being a good story. But the whole hanging-actor thing was meant to say they were a god and could just wave problems away. (Apparently literally.)

[etterra@discuss.online]

That's the name of an SCP, that's the name of an SCP, that's...

[kspvhmtolwvmd7y7e@lemmy.world]

they were more interested in telling a moral than being a good story

So.. Literally Netflix

[klear@lemmy.world]

Cute comic, but I'm starting to hate how people stared thinking that an insult is the same thing as an ad hominem. No. If I call you an idiot without attaching any propositions to that, it's just an insult and not a logical fallacy.

[general_effort@lemmy.world]

As the story goes, John Steinbeck was told by one of his professors that he would become an author when pigs fly,[...]

The accurate phrase is “ad astra per ALAS porci,” which means that Steinbeck in his snarky revenge was demonstrating far and wide that he was a bad student after all – and thanks to his famous but inaccurate imprint, countless people are running around with tattoos which actually say “to the stars through other pigs.”{“ad astra per alia porci”]

https://sluggoonthestreet.tumblr.com/post/188811241794/as-the-story-goes-john-steinbeck-was-told-by-one

[where_am_i@sh.itjust.works]

So many upvotes, while so many botchered translations.

[nieceandtows@lemmy.world]

That "This farmer is evel" by the pig and the "sic" by the hen gives me a sensible chuckle

[mosiacmango@lemm.ee]

Please feel free to correct any I "botchered."

[general_effort@lemmy.world]

That's a cock rooster.

[vincent@feddit.nl]

I suppose "revolt, because the farmer is evil!" is more of an ad hominem than "revolt, because the farmer will have us all slaughtered!"

[hogmomma@lemmy.world]

Boost 1.0.14 for Android.

[hupf@feddit.org]

What's this then?

[majorhavoc@programming.dev]

Well, I need to take a cold hard look in the mirror, because I was waiting for the Pig to complain aboutsystemd.

[sam_bass@lemmy.world]

ixnay on eht ingolay

[chairmanmeow@programming.dev]

For those who like Latin puns, there's: "Studiosus sine studio sus est".