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Mine was found during an archeological dig in England on the site of an old Roman tavern. The Latin scholars puzzled over it for a long time until a small boy told them that he could read it straight off.
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formerly known as etaoin...
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Ores tabit fortis arare placet orestat.
O rest a bit, for 'tis a rare place to rest at.
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I heard of another case where those heavy-headed archaeologists found an ancient (presumably roman) artifact and scratched their lumpy noggins long and hard to understand what it was for and what the inscription might mean until a small fellow (probably that same young boy from the other story) came along and help them figure out what "toti ehors esto" meant, thereby solving the riddle of the artifact.
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because those that have had no Latin training have no basis for discriminating between Latin and faux-Latin. we seem to get a lot of both here, which only benefits the few initiates.
Swaff!
I was with you, eta.
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In reply to:
Ores tabit fortis arare placet orestat.
O rest a bit, for 'tis a rare place to rest at.
And here I thought it meant: His teeth had a fortress of rare tabs placed in the tooth station.
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what threw me was that ending with a preposition business... 
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And how many of us figured out what the "Mirror of Erised" was about in Harry Potter,
before the author explained it?
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And how many of us figured out...
Ooh! Ooh! I did, I did!
felt I had to jump in with that....since the faux Latin had me all fuddled....
Can't resist adding something from my treasure trove of Quotable Quotes:
Conversational Latin
Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.
- It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.
Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!
- God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!
Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.
- The designated hitter rule has got to go.
Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
- I think some people in togas are plotting against me.
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
- If Caesar were alive, you’d be chained to an oar.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
(At a barbecue) Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?
- Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?
Neutiquam erro.
- I am not lost.
Hocine bibo aut in eum digitos insero?
- Do I drink this or stick my fingers in it?
Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur.
- Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out.
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Faldage's entry was not just for initiates. Yuk,yuk.
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