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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 4 1 2 3 4 Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Addendum #6634 09/27/00 02:09 PM 09/27/00 02:09 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC >Having not taken any Latin, but living in a generation where one's peers thrive on unconspicuously crude jokes and quotes, I'm guessing that 'mingit' means urinate. And your guess would be exactly right. Something about the Latin verb mingo rang a tiny bell in the back of my mind. In it's major parts it is mingo, mingere, micti, mictus, I suspect, an etymological echo of the verb fingo, fingere, ficti, fictus, which is the one I do remember from my two years of Latin MANY years ago. (Fingere means to form.) I looked up micturate, which means urinate, and the dictionary obligingly reported that the word comes from micturire, to want to urinate, from mingere, to urinate. TEd Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? Addendum #6635 09/27/00 02:56 PM 09/27/00 02:56 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 R RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando   Pooh-Bah R Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 micturate, which means urinate I have for many years wondered if "micturate" is the word that is shortened in "Taking the Mick" - not least because of the less polite form in which that sentiment is sometimes expressed. or am I micturating up the wrong tree? Taking the Mick??? #6636 09/27/00 03:30 PM 09/27/00 03:30 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC What, pray tell, is "taking the Mick?" TEd Re: Taking the Mick??? #6637 09/27/00 07:45 PM 09/27/00 07:45 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 J jmh Pooh-Bah jmh   Pooh-Bah J Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 Taking the mickey = poking fun, often Irish sometimes referred to as "extracting the Michael" never known who Michael was though! Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? #6638 09/27/00 07:57 PM 09/27/00 07:57 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen OP Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen   OP Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 contrafibularities Sorry! That word is a reference to a very funny episode of the British comedy series "Blackadder." The episode involves Dr. Samuel Johnson and his dictionary. There is a scene in which Johnson boasts that his dictionary includes every word in the English language. Blackadder extends his "contrafibularities" as part of a ninety second monologue full of made up words - it's very funny, at least I found it to be so. Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? #6639 09/27/00 08:22 PM 09/27/00 08:22 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 this too shall pass EBlackadder: "Contrafibularities, sir. It is a common word down our way." SJohnson: "Damn!" EB: "Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericumbobulation." . . EB: "Of course, sir. I shall return...interfrastically." . . KingGeorge : "Look, Doctor Johnson, I may be as thick as a whale omelette, but even *I* know a book's got to have a plot." Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? #6640 09/27/00 08:35 PM 09/27/00 08:35 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen OP Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen   OP Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 You are a prince! Thanks for that, I shall dig up my old tapes now and watch it again. One of my favourites was the definition offered for the letter "C": "Big blue wobbly thing what mermaids live in." Re: Taking the Mick...and micturate #6641 09/27/00 08:37 PM 09/27/00 08:37 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 347 Melbourne, Australia M Marty enthusiast Marty   enthusiast M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 347 Melbourne, Australia Certainly in Australia, "taking the piss" is a well-known expression, although Olympic drug-testing officialdom has imparted a more literal meaning to the phrase. Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? #6642 09/27/00 11:55 PM 09/27/00 11:55 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Looks like Max has still to find a "babelfish" for Latin.... sic transit gloria ciber(sic)-mundi Re: Is there a "babelfish" for Latin? #6643 09/28/00 04:08 PM 09/28/00 04:08 PM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia B Bridget addict Bridget   addict B Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia >the definition offered for the letter "C": "Big blue wobbly thing what mermaids live in." < Moving the subject on again entirely, can anyone assist me with the missing parts of the following alphabet. I never knew and my father has forgotten... 'Ay for 'orses Beef or mutton Sea for ships Dee for salmon 'Eave a brick Effervescent G? H? Ivor Novello J? K? 'Ell for leather Emphasis N? Over the Rainbow P? 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