My dog ate it.
Canis meus id comedit.
I did call. Maybe your answering machine is broken.
Sane ego te vocavi. Forsitan capedictum tuum desit.
Baby, Sweetheart, would I lie to you?
Amicule, deliciae, num is sum qui mentiar tibi?
The check is in the mail.
Perscriptio in manibus tabellariorum est.
I was kidnapped by aliens. What year is it?
Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est?
I think some people in togas are plotting against me.
Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags.
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.
If Caesar were alive, you’d be chained to an oar.
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
I’m not interested in your dopey religious cult.
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
Things to Say to a Teenager
Really Rad, dude!
Radicitus, comes!
What’s happening?
Quid fit?
Latin as a Computer Language
Why won’t you print out?
Cur ullum imprimere non vis?
Don’t you dare erase my hard disk!
Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum!
I did not commit a fatal error!
Non erravi perniciose!
Garbage in, garbage out.
Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum.
I brake for animals
Frena pro feris teneo
Save the whales
Balaenae nobis conservandae sunt
Honk if you speak Latin
Sona si latine loqueris
When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt
If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated and much too close
Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades
Listen, would you repeat everything you just told me, only this time say it in English?
Heus, modo itera omnia quae mihi nunc nuper narravisti, sed nunc Anglice?
Oh! Was I speaking Latin again?
Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar?
Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out.
Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur.
Sure, I speak a little Latin.
Sane, paululum linguae Latinae dico.
I picked it up here and there. Really, Latin isn’t all that hard.
Id legi modo hic modo illic. Vero, Latine loqui non est difficilissimum.
It looks like a tricky language, but you’ll get the hang of it pretty quickly.
Lingua speciem involutam praebet, sed sat cito eam comprehendes.
And remember, there aren’t any Romans around to correct your pronunciation.
Atque memento, nulli adsunt Romanorum qui locutionem tuam corrigant.
It doesn’t rhyme.
Nullo metro compositum est.
I don’t care. If it doesn’t rhyme, it isn’t a poem.
Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.
