At the Vampire LARP

[quislibet]

Let us enter into a (physical, mental, social) challenge.
Incipiamus certamen (corporum, mentium, ingeniorum).

I overwhelm you with my Ferocious fist!
Te supero Feroci pugno.

... with my Knowledgeable intellect!
... Docto animo.

... with my Intimidating personality!
... Formiduloso ingenio.

I am too (Stalwart, Determined, Dignified ) for you to move/affect me.
(Validior, Obstinatior, Gravior) sum quam ut me movere possis.

Ha! Eat (rock, paper, scissors), fangboy!
Hahae! Esto (saxum, chartam, forficem), o dentate puer!

I am not so easily vanquished, thanks to my skill at (Dodging, Occult, Intimidation)!
Non sum qui tam faciliter vincar propter peritiam (eludendi, artium occultarum, minandi )!

You can't retest with that.
Non licet ista peritia uti ad certandum iterum.

I have "the bomb".
Est mihi "pyrobolum."

I'm out of traits.
Proprietates meas consumpsi.

You take three Agg.
Tria vulnera aggravata passus (f. passa) es.

Where is the Narrator?
Ubi est Narrator?

We're in a time-freeze.
Mora nobis interposita est quominus ageremus.

Am I here yet?
Iamne adveni?

You can't understand us: we're speaking Latin.
Non nos intellegere potes: loquimur latine.

This is Elysium! Put those weapons away!
Hoc est Elysium! Deponite arma!

Comments

[lachesis.livejournal.com]

yes but.. can you say:
"Mommy, why is that man wearing a wedding dress?"

*waits in antici....pation*

[exquiscadavre.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! Please, please send that to the OWbN webmaster to post in the humor section--it deserves to be read by generations of gamers to come!

[exquiscadavre.livejournal.com]

On second thought, maybe it should just be a link you your page. Since you were probably going to put this stuff there, right?

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it! Before publicizing it further I will wait at least until it has been vetted by the Latin-literate masses. I already see one typo myself...

Eventually it and a bunch of other stuff that has prevented me from writing a dissertation chapter this past month will go up here (http://www.geocities.com/quislibet2003/gamers/).

San Francisco's Motto.

[ajpursell.livejournal.com]

Kill them. Take their sutff.
Eos caede suasque res cape!

[bluerosesgirl.livejournal.com]

"Non nos intellegere potes: loquimur latine."

I would love to see this on a shirt or something similar. Gratias.

[lutron.livejournal.com]

Are you sure that you can talk about the latin language as "latine." Wouldn't it be "lingua latina?"

[jdm314.livejournal.com]

"in Latin" is most commonly latine, which literally means "Latinly." The same goes for other languages. If you don't like that construction, it is permitted to say it as you suggest: linguâ latinâ (in the ablative, of course).

[jdm314.livejournal.com]

You're soliciting corrections? Oh crud, I read through that whole thing telling myself not to suggest any changes. Now I'll have to go through it all again ;)

[jdm314.livejournal.com]

hmmm, well I don't know how to say "wedding dress," but in Roman times brides wore a flamboyant veil called a flammeum, so maybe:

"Mamma, cur iste homo flammeatus est?"

[larryhammer]

Eventually, you need to do a kung fu edition. "My new fighting technique is unstopable!" "You're weak, old man." "You have grown, Grasshopper."

---L.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

I should at least add one or more of those to the forthcoming page of "movie quotes (over)used by gamers."

Frumini castello oppugnando!

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what he said.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

I'm especially hoping to avoid perpetrating outright errors, although I can certainly stand to benefit from "this construction/word would be better"-type suggestions.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Fruimini, I mean.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

There's always the power of Cafepress.com!

(Or the cheaper route of print-out iron-on transfers.)