http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: OT: How would you say 'Space Cadet' in Latin? en Thu, 21 May 2026 19:52:37 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7118#post-74774 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 10:55:56 +0000 Tom 74774@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@amir: "I don't know that but remember that homunculus was a good insult in those days"</p> <p>That's some memory you have! Wasn't homunculus used as an insult by Captain Haddock? Maybe that was covered in Ecce Romani MCXXIV. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7118#post-74764 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:41:26 +0000 gembo 74764@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is there not a scene in wyatt Earp where val Kilmer playing doc Holliday insults the clantons or other villains via an exchange of Latin phrases? He Also has a little silver cup for his laudanum and calls Kevin costner huckleberry or dangleberry a lot.</p> <p>Romanes eunt domum. People called romanes they go the house. is another favourite dog Latin movie moment.</p> <p>Space and cadet sound French. French being a romance language will be even more rooted in Latin than English</p> <p>In vino veritas or hungover and listening to the rain flooding my roofless back porch </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7118#post-74733 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:24:50 +0000 Uberuce 74733@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I doubt Ratzie Baby and I would get along, somehow. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7118#post-74731 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:17:48 +0000 amir 74731@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Are you off to the Vatican, Uberuce? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7118#post-74730 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:16:38 +0000 Tom 74730@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tyro ex terra? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7118#post-74728 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:43:48 +0000 chdot 74728@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Other languages are available -</p> <p><a href="http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=892358" rel="nofollow">http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=892358</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7118#post-74727 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:38:10 +0000 amir 74727@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't know that but remember that homunculus was a good insult in those days. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7118#post-74724 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:23:48 +0000 chdot 74724@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> but I'd rather trust the users of a cycling forum based in and around Edinburgh</p> <p>"<br /> But of course! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7118#post-74718 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:15:03 +0000 steveo 74718@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Classics trained wife says, you wouldn't but if you must: caeli cadet </p> <p>She rekons cadet is Latin... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7118#post-74716 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:01:54 +0000 Uberuce 74716@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The irony is the offline pal who I know can answer is also the person the jocular Latin is for, so I can't just fluff it with <em>Novicium Celestiae</em> or something.</p> <p>Google suggests I could take <em>hastati</em>, the Legion's raw recruits and pop <em>celestialis</em> but I'd rather trust the users of a cycling forum based in and around Edinburgh. </p>