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Latin Language in Everyday Lives

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:03 pm
by Q. Ovidius Sabinus
I wanted to start this thread, because I'm always coming across new uses for Latin. I assume that other folks do, too.

Here's the first link: Foreca.mobi Weather Services also in Latin.

It's a weather site for your mobile device (http://foreca.mobi. I tried it on my BlackBerry, and it works pretty well.

- qos

Programming Perl...igata

PostPosted: Fri May 09, 2008 3:39 am
by Aldus Marius
Salve, Sabine amice!

And I another; turns out Latin works quite well as a PERL-genre computer language.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/p ... igata.html

(Daggone Romans. We take over everything!) >({|;-)

In fide and cahoots,

Re: Programming Perl...igata

PostPosted: Fri May 09, 2008 4:27 am
by Q. Ovidius Sabinus
Aldus Marius wrote:And I another; turns out Latin works quite well as a PERL-genre computer language.

Mei deus! That is amazing. There's a feeling of -- how shall I put this -- shock, however, when one is confronted with an ancient scripting language in an ancient speaking language, and double that shock when the former is more easily understood when displayed in the latter.

Inventum bonum, meus amice!

Wikipedia in Latin

PostPosted: Fri May 09, 2008 4:30 am
by Q. Ovidius Sabinus
la.wikipedia.org is where Wikipedia can be found in Latin. I don't know if this counts as new, though, because it's been around for quite awhile. I only just remembered it after reading the Perl paper (I don't know if I'm every going to forget that ... ).

- qos

Tweak

PostPosted: Fri May 09, 2008 4:51 am
by Aldus Marius
Salve iterum, clare Ovidi!

Heia, it's new to me!! *warps over there*

I tweaked your link to the Foreca.mobi press release so that it didn't s---t---r---e---t---c---h the Board display on beyond Zebra. It's BBcoded a bit differently, but it still goes to the same place. Hope you don't mind! >`({(:-)

[Disclaimer: Other than fixing links Too Kewl to Miss, your admin does not go around editing peoples' posts.]

In amicitia et fide,

PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:27 pm
by Marcus Tullius Ioannes
Latin in a strange, limited form is alive and well in the law. Lawyer-latin we can call it perhaps. Nunc pro tunc, per stirpes, sine die, the ever popular res ipsa locquitur, ejusdem generis, for example. You should hear lawyers' pronunciation. But it is interesting, and a testimony to the power and influence of Rome and latin, that even these small phrases can still be heard, and read, in courtrooms all over the english-speaking world.