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Unread 11-22-2010, 01:21 PM
 
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Default Does anyone speak or translate Latin?
My Naval Unit is doing up a t-shirt, and it would be great if someone could translate the phrase "I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you" into latin! Much appreciated!
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Unread 11-22-2010, 02:46 PM
 
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Ego could dico vos , tamen tunc ego would have neco vos.

not an exact translation.
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Unread 11-22-2010, 02:58 PM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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Scio, tunc autem volo te occidere

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Unread 11-22-2010, 03:06 PM
 
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Here you go Milehidenver

Si tibi narraremus, te interficere deberemus



By the way where's your duty station ??
Last edited by Six Foot Three; 11-22-2010 at 03:18 PM..
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Unread 11-23-2010, 08:45 AM
 
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By the way where's your duty station ??
Well...he could tell you...but then he'd have to kill you.
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Unread 11-23-2010, 05:56 PM
 
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Well...he could tell you...but then he'd have to kill you.
Well then as the Romans used to say ''Decorum est pro patria mori'' or translated ''It would be glorius to die for my country''
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