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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2005-04-21 09:14 am

The window-washers of Walden

The only excuse I can offer for posting the following interchange is that I've been translating a marvelous children's book into Latin for the last three hours and there is nothing currently resident in my cerebral cortex except how to talk about crocodiles and ducks in language Cicero would recognize.

fleurdelis28: The latest [e-mail spam] characters are: Trust C. Cordless, Harvey Bray, Pommeling H. Blowout, Babushka D. Bricklaying . . . Inconvenience K. Merck, Acknowleged F. Expedition, Charlotte Ikotin, Alta Atwood, Steps M. Dublin, Grady P. Kirkland, Edward G. Biggs, and Emerson Montoya.

Me: I think Emerson Montoya must be Inigo's philosophical cousin.

fleurdelis28: My name is Emerson Montoya. You fogged my Transparent Eyeball. Prepare to be Windexed.


Maybe I should figure out how to say that in Latin . . .

[edited 2005-04-22 16:43]

Emerson Montoya me uocant. Nebulosum fecisti limpidum meum oculum. Parate te ad uindexationem.
—Josh Burson


Awesome.
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[identity profile] astromachy.livejournal.com 2005-04-28 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be very nice of you.
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Thank you for that.
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[identity profile] astromachy.livejournal.com 2005-04-28 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you very much. That is a cool song; I like it.