And another post

[quislibet]

Although I am on the other side of the building, I just heard Bellowing Tricycle Man go by.

For something approaching real content, I give you a sneak preview of a future installment of "Latin for Gamers," the "useful phrases" page:

English: The dead brigand has three hundred gold pieces, a small green gem, and a Sword of Decapitation.
Latin: Praedoni mortuo sunt trecenti aurei, parva viridis gemma, et gladius incantatus ad capita detruncanda.

English: I'm afraid we're all out of Mountain Dew.
Latin: Vereor ne totam potionem vocabulo roris montani consumpserimus.

Now if only I could make myself write other things.

Comments

[worldcomrade.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. Mountain dew. That is long overdue.

[greenelephant.livejournal.com]

Now if only I could make myself write other things

Sigh, I know that feeling. But this is so much more fun!

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

I keep saying, I will finish this pointless project, and then there will be nothing to stop me writing my dissertation!

And then I think of a whole 'nother section I can write.

But I need to have a draft of a chapter before Christmas, or it will go ill for me in the court of public opinion.

[whatifoundthere.livejournal.com]

You so kick Henry Beard's ass.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Gosh!

and for my next trick...

[kires.livejournal.com]

I shall prove that I know practically nothing about Quislibet!
::stunned silence::
Bellowing ... Tricycle Man? How, exactly, does one earn for themselves so glorious a moniker? (I ask mainly because the mental image is too ... it's too ... (adjective failure, sorry) to have gone down in this plane.)

Re: and for my next trick...

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Bellowing Tricycle Man is my name (but other locals know who I mean instantly) for a guy who rides a large three-wheeled vehicle at high speeds (for a trike) along the sidewalks of Beantown. To warn pedestrians of his approach, he bellows out a repeated "oooWOOOOOAAAHH! oooWOOOOOAAAAHH!"

It carries rather well.

I've never ascertained whether this is his hobby, or if it only happens when he has a specific destination in mind, but he's been at it since at least 1992 when I moved up here.

Re: and for my next trick...

[canonfire.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

I'm NEVER gonna get to see BTM.

Re: and for my next trick...

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually *seen* him in quite a while myself.

[ex-yuna856.livejournal.com]

Hi!

I have a question. I don't know much about Latin, so I'm just wondering...does "ergo rego" translate to "therefore I rule"? And is it gramatically correct? ^^

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

It does, and it is.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

...except it just occurred to me today all of a sudden that I'm not sure "rego" can be used without a direct object; you have to rule *something* to use "rego." A better verb, though less clever, is the similar "regno," "rule, be king," which doesn't need the object.

[trickypixie36.livejournal.com]

Rock.
That's bound to be more handy than my pilotspeak.
And it sounds cooler at the, uh.. dinner table. Yes.