Pasifikawv
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Otra mas cerveza, por favor....
Your favorite "other" language quotes..
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BigRich315
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Quando omni flunkus moritati. Sit down. 
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Favorite Quote
May not even be an "other" language but it is: "Illigitimus Non Carborundum". Came from old buddy from Virginia back in the real early 60's, he was a wise man and I've tried to obey this very religiously. Hope others will subscribe, also.
May not even be an "other" language but it is: "Illigitimus Non Carborundum". Came from old buddy from Virginia back in the real early 60's, he was a wise man and I've tried to obey this very religiously. Hope others will subscribe, also.
This one in Japanese has always struck me as pithy:
Sumomomomomomomomonouchi!
Actually, the point is not that the meaning itself is profound, but that the Japanese language allows for humerous constructions like this. Sorta a tongue twister.
It means "A [Japanese] plum is also a [part of the] peach [family of fruit]!
Sumomomomomomomomonouchi!
Actually, the point is not that the meaning itself is profound, but that the Japanese language allows for humerous constructions like this. Sorta a tongue twister.
It means "A [Japanese] plum is also a [part of the] peach [family of fruit]!
CAJUNLAWYER
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Via Con Dios
I also like my signature line
I also like my signature line
Dolly Clavo - in Venezula for "get going" - rough translation - "hit the nail on the head"
Bakatotty benjo nesmei - Crazy s***house rat - Fukoka Japan bar language
Bakatotty benjo nesmei - Crazy s***house rat - Fukoka Japan bar language
Mickey D
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Que Paso .
nicky4968
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Multitudo imperitorum perdit curiam ~ a horde of ignorant practitioners destorys a court
Fiat justicia ruat coelum ~ slogan of the San Francisco vigilance committee ~ Let justice be done though the heavens fall
The one I wish young lawyers would learn ~ my signature line ~ (Seize, grasp, hold, grok) the (essence, nature of the thing) and the words will follow.
Fiat justicia ruat coelum ~ slogan of the San Francisco vigilance committee ~ Let justice be done though the heavens fall
The one I wish young lawyers would learn ~ my signature line ~ (Seize, grasp, hold, grok) the (essence, nature of the thing) and the words will follow.
beemerphile
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"Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker"- Friedrich Nietzsche
(otherwise, he was pretty much a ditz.)
(otherwise, he was pretty much a ditz.)
mwtdvm
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It fits so many situations...
feces in a argentum scaphium est usquequaque feces
No matter how you package it, there it is..
feces in a argentum scaphium est usquequaque feces
No matter how you package it, there it is..
My sig line:
"Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense" is the motto of the British Order of the Garter. It is translated, "Shame on them who think ill of it," which is another way of stating the late Richard P Feynman's "Who cares what other people think?"
Another foreign-language quote is from my late grandfather, usually uttered when he dropped a tool that rolled under his car, or when he banged his knuckles: "Scheisse!" You can google that.
Noah
"Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense" is the motto of the British Order of the Garter. It is translated, "Shame on them who think ill of it," which is another way of stating the late Richard P Feynman's "Who cares what other people think?"
Another foreign-language quote is from my late grandfather, usually uttered when he dropped a tool that rolled under his car, or when he banged his knuckles: "Scheisse!" You can google that.
Noah
Pugnate ad Mortem-Fight until death.
don95sml
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I probably shouldn't be posting this, since I can't provide the exact quote. Somewhere in Germany is an old Roman arch inscribed with words that mean "Don't piss into the wind". I have a photo of that arch somewhere around here, but can't find it at the moment. Sound advice, anyway!
Illigitimi Non Carborundum........
"Don't let the bastards grind you down"
"Don't let the bastards grind you down"
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One I've found that rolls easily off the tongue is used by a motorcycle riding buddy of mine who did a couple of tours in Vietnam with the Navy in the sixties. It is "Sin Loi G.I." He even has a decal with that expression on it on the windshield of his Harley. Roughly translated it means tough poopie in Vietnamese.
Bob
Sin loi (or however it's spelled) I haven't heard that for awhile. I was told that it actualy ment "sorry about that". But the way it was most often used, "tough poopie" would be a good translation.
Freischütz
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"Götz" The shortened version of a phrase in Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen.
AITG
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"Flato ergo sum."
Or, the more popular "Moron lube"
Or, the more popular "Moron lube"
Homo doctvs is se semper divitias habet.
"A learned man always has wealth within himself."
"A learned man always has wealth within himself."
CW Spook
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