i want this quote translated.
“No one begs the sun for mercy.”
http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=English&to=Latin
nemo peto sol solis pro misericordia
seems about right…
Just E-mailed my daughter, she should have no problem with this, being the language nerd that she is.
lol thanks. i wanna make sure its absolutely correct before i permanently ink it on myself. i translated myself but i thought best to ask too.
that stuff dont come off. (well cheaply or easily atleast) 
Why don’t people beg the sun for mercy?
Er, why don’t you just tattoo it in English?! Then you won’t risk the ridicule of passing Roman legionnaires or 85 year-old English grammatarians…
Does it personally matter to you that it’s in Latin? Nobody’s gonna understand it right, which means you must want it for attention… so, if you want a tattoo as a conversation starter why not just get the word ‘olm’ tattooed on your forehead?
Not attacking you, I got ink myself, just don’t understand your reasoning…
beg is the word i was having trouble with.
it seems like it could be posco, precor, or peto i dont have a clue which is the proper one for the usage i want.
peto : to ask for, beg, request, demand / to sue for.
posco : to beg.
precor : to beseech, pray, beg, entreat, invoke.
[QUOTE=MasterKiller;793606]Why don’t people beg the sun for mercy?[/QUOTE]I give up. What’s the punchline?
Anyway, I do. Japanese summers are brutal.
People routinely beg a space ghost and his son (but it’s not really his son, it’s a 1/3 of the space ghost) for mercy. I don’t think the sun is much different. Except that it really exists. Which means people probably ask it for all kinds of things. Including mercy, from time to time.
[QUOTE=FuXnDajenariht;793608]beg is the word i was having trouble with.
it seems like it could be posco, precor, or peto i dont have a clue which is the proper one for the usage i want.
peto : to ask for, beg, request, demand / to sue for.
posco : to beg.
precor : to beseech, pray, beg, entreat, invoke.
http://arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Latin/[/QUOTE]FWIW I would go for ‘peto’. But then I learned classical Latin: this seems a mix, I’m pretty sure ‘precor’ is a newer form (doesn’t even look like a verb to me) and ‘posco’ definitely is. Plus, ‘sue for’ would be a good meaning to go for.
Make sure you don’t get your Latins mixed up… if you get a mix of classical Latin and medieval Church Latin, hell, neither Centurions nor 12th century monks will be able to understand you!
They’ll translate it for you, and it’s more accurate than a Kung Fu forum.
Wait till my daughter looks it up. she will figure it out right.
[QUOTE=MasterKiller;793610]People routinely beg a space ghost and his son (but it’s not really his son, it’s a 1/3 of the space ghost) for mercy. I don’t think the sun is much different. Except that it really exists. Which means people probably ask it for all kinds of things. Including mercy, from time to time.[/QUOTE]A “space ghost”? Have you been writing sci-fi again or have you gone all Anglo-Saxon poetic imagery on us?
And yeah, of course, people had been praying to the sun for centuries before the ‘space ghost’ popped up.
people believe that tiny little magnets come together in different ratios to make stuff, and that some german guy who failed highschool was right about there being a limit to how fast something can go.
Anything sounds crazy if you word it correctly.
[QUOTE=NJM;793612]They’ll translate it for you, and it’s more accurate than a Kung Fu forum.[/QUOTE]Meh. Omnes viae Kung-fuforam du****!
EDIT: WTF, automatic Classics Filter - I like it!
OK, should be ‘Omnes viae Kungfuforam duminge’ or a four-letter variation thereof!
[QUOTE=Mr Punch;793607]Er, why don’t you just tattoo it in English?! Then you won’t risk the ridicule of passing Roman legionnaires or 85 year-old English grammatarians…
Does it personally matter to you that it’s in Latin? Nobody’s gonna understand it right, which means you must want it for attention… so, if you want a tattoo as a conversation starter why not just get the word ‘olm’ tattooed on your forehead?
Not attacking you, I got ink myself, just don’t understand your reasoning…[/QUOTE]
lol whats does that mean…olm?
well i like latin for one, i think the phrase looks better in latin (ie: cooler) but thats just my opinion. and no its not necesarily a conversation piece. the phrase by its nature means most people will ask me its meaning anyway, but its more like a reminder to myself.
i read the phrase in a Frank Herbert book. one from the Dune series, i dont remember what. it kind of spoke to me. more like hit me like bag of bricks for some reason. i suppose it could mean anything you want it to. the scene was set in the desert. when in the desert your pretty accepting of your choice to be there. you simply have to accept and survive. makes no sense to get angry or upset or lament the heat. as it applies to every day life it basically means “just go with the flow”.
its not very well articulated pretentious bullsh!t on my part lol. but i always carry that with me when i’m stressed.
[QUOTE=Mr Punch;793611]FWIW I would go for ‘peto’. But then I learned classical Latin: this seems a mix, I’m pretty sure ‘precor’ is a newer form (doesn’t even look like a verb to me) and ‘posco’ definitely is. Plus, ‘sue for’ would be a good meaning to go for.
Make sure you don’t get your Latins mixed up… if you get a mix of classical Latin and medieval Church Latin, hell, neither Centurions nor 12th century monks will be able to understand you! :D[/QUOTE]
lol i didn’t take the different forms of Latin into account. good point…
languages evolve duuuh.
Melissa says don’t use the translators, they are very bad.
She created an account, and as soon a Gene approves it, she is going to do the translation for you here.
ok kewl…
http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olm
Or I could translate it into Japanese for you…? (The quote, not ‘olm’!) Japanese is a cool language…