Anyone here speak Latin?

GeneralElectric · #1 01-22-2011, 11:15 AM

I had knee surgery two weeks ago and I've been keeping myself occupied with leatherwork. One of my projects is a belt for this girl. She didn't have anything in mind for a design, other than that she wanted me to make her a belt.

So I cut the leather today for her belt and I'm about to carve lettering into it. I want it to be a joke almost since she speaks Latin. I don't and my friends who've taken it are awful at it. I'm going to scratch out google translator too.

So help me out here TB with a latin translation!

Text:
Without this leather band, this girl's pants would never stand.

Its for a good cause. I might get dinner out of this.

Topspin · #2 01-22-2011, 11:45 AM

This is the google tranlated version- Sine corio turba Fac hac puella numquam sto.

You probably already tried that though.

hrodbert696 · #3 01-22-2011, 02:15 PM

My best at the moment is...

Sine corio, genualem puellae cadere scio.

Literally, "Without the leather belt, I know the girl's pants will fall." Can't get the rhyme you had in English to work in the Latin.

With respect to Topspin, "turba" is a "band" in the sense of a crowd and "sto" is "I stand."

GeneralElectric · #4 01-22-2011, 03:48 PM

Thanks man, I appreciate it. Its ok if it doesn't rhyme too much in Latin, I'm sure she'll get the joke.

caligula · #5 01-23-2011, 01:03 PM

The vocab
corium, corii n - leather
zona, zonae f - belt
sine - without
bracarum, bracari n - pants
puella, puellae f - girl
neque umquam - never
haberent - they would hold (meaning: stay where they are)

thus:
sine hanc zonam corii bracara puellae neque umquam haberent.

I put in "hanc" for "this" leather belt and made the "leather belt" a genetivus qualitatis (should work, I'm pretty sure) instead of a compound word.
"would never " is not an indicative, it should be an imperfect subjunctive, indicating a possibility. "haberent" is plural because of "pants".

Don't mean to be rude, but "cadere" is "to fall" in the sense of dying and the ACI including "scio" is indicative, doesn't really indicate "would".

However, I'm not perfect either.
Cheers

ps user Fassa Albrecht (I think) seems to be quite good at Latin.....maybe she'll chime in...