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    Okay, I feel like a fool asking, but I need some help with Latin. Basically, I'm co-writing a story where someone is using magic, and has to speak the words. I know next to nothing about Latin, so if there is a reference or some site where I can put words in English and it will properly spit out the translation in Latin.

    Please, no Harry Potter sites and no links to Babel Fish.

    Thanks!
    Random conversation:
    Me: Okay..so I think I get why Zoro wears a bandana
    DDD: Cuz it's cool

    So, by using the Doctor's reasoning, bow ties, fezzes and bandanas are cool.

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    Sooo.... Google Translate is right out, then?



    ^-.-^
    Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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    • #3
      All I can think of is the Car Talk motto: "non impediti ratione cogitationis"
      Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

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      • #4
        I should have a Latin dictionary somewhere, but I'm not sure precisely where.

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        • #5
          Quoth Andara Bledin View Post
          Sooo.... Google Translate is right out, then?



          ^-.-^
          Oh Andara (I kid)

          Google Translate was terrible.

          This:

          Dolor curavit per eam intus me

          Comes out as:

          The pain caused by it inside of me

          Which I'm sure is not right.
          Random conversation:
          Me: Okay..so I think I get why Zoro wears a bandana
          DDD: Cuz it's cool

          So, by using the Doctor's reasoning, bow ties, fezzes and bandanas are cool.

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          • #6
            Illegitimi non carborundum

            "Don't let the bastards grind you down"

            That's the extend of my Latin at the moment and, according to Wikipedia, it's not even real -- it's "mock Latin," whatever that means.

            I have a Latin for Dummies and a Latin/English dictionary but they are packed, pending my move, so, sadly, I can't help you much ATM.

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            • #7
              I used this for my Latin class and history capstone as an undergrad: http://archives.nd.edu/latgramm.htm

              You can download the program (I did, but sadly, it won't work with my new comp) and it's a great little thing. It's based off Whittaker's Latin.

              Oh, and, since I haven't used the online program in a while, I can't guarantee this as a feature, but on the download program it would give multiple meanings for the Latin and for English to Latin it would give conjugates if necessary.
              My NaNo page

              My author blog

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