Amicus Veritas

[Byron In Exile]

I have to ask: what is it you think this says? Because "amicus veritas," is embarrassingly broken, grammatically. Two nouns together, in this case literally "friend truth," is a senseless construction in Latin.

If you were trying to say "true friend," that would be "amicus verus." If you wanted "friend of truth," or "truth's friend," that would be "amicus veritatis." What you have now translates roughly to "me not know language."

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

You talk like pale face Kimosabe...

 

[amicus]

Ah, Byron in Exile, you should be in exile, without a doubt, how funking petty can you get?

There is the Amicus Brief, in legal language, something on the order of a friend of the court. There is Bon Ami, used to be a soap, I think...

I chose amicus veritas because it can be translated as a friend of truth, which I am indeed.

You are really silly and if that is all you have to offer...you have nothing...

Amicus Veritas (the rose shows my sentimentality..heh...)

 

[Byron In Exile]

You talk like pale face Kimosabe...

Sicut nicticorax in domicilio dico. Amicus sicut fatuus dicit.

Sed quomodo te dicere nescio.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Sicut nicticorax in domicilio dico. Amicus sicut fatuus dicit.

Sed quomodo te dicere nescio.

No Habla gringo...

We were the civilized tribe, not the educated tribe. That's how we ended up in Oklahoma, waiting for Marshall to enforce his ruling...

 

[amicus]

Sicut nicticorax in domicilio dico. Amicus sicut fatuus dicit.

Sed quomodo te dicere nescio.[/QUOTE]

~~~

I guess the asshole academic who posted in a foreign language thinks no one else has access to the internet.

The above translates as thus, make your own judgment:

http://www.archive.org/stream/theexempla00vitruoft/theexempla00vitruoft_djvu.txt

http://www.archive.org/stream/exemplaorillust00crangoog/exemplaorillust00crangoog_djvu.txt

This jerk doesn't have the intellectual honesty to reply in a common language, while both, 'amicus', and 'veritas', are easily understood...and...of course, are not part of my Post, merely my Signature...

go hide somewhere and find a porn forum...

amicus veritas...


You don't get a rose..

 

[Saint Peter]

Come on. Give him a rose.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Oh sweet lil pink baby Jesus!!

I've not laffed like this in a long time... it fucking hurts...

ow ow ow!

 

[Saint Peter]

That kind of response is not going to get you any roses. Or nachos.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Come on. Give him a rose.

I fucking earned that rose, man.

 

[Byron In Exile]

That kind of response is not going to get you any roses. Or nachos.

Everyone who's ever lol'd at anything I've ever posted should post a rose in this thread.

Including you, buddy. You know I'm not getting paid for this... what's an erose going to cost you? Srsly.

 

[Saint Peter]

Two. I am fairly sure in the past decade you have made me laugh at least that many times.

:nachos:

:extra spicy pickles:

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Oh sweet lil pink baby Jesus!!

I've not laffed like this in a long time... it fucking hurts...

ow ow ow!

Fucking racist cracker...




Everyone knows sweet baby Jesus was born brown but painted white by the Euro pukes...

 

[Saint Peter]

Or born gay, depending on where you go online to get it translated.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Two. I am fairly sure in the past decade you have made me laugh at least that many times.

:nachos:

:extra spicy pickles:

Awesomesauce, thank you!

Wow. That was intense.

I haven't read a lot of "Amicus Veritas [sic]" — is he always this zany?

 

[NewEnglandGirl]

Everyone who's ever lol'd at anything I've ever posted should post a rose in this thread.

Including you, buddy. You know I'm not getting paid for this... what's an erose going to cost you? Srsly.

You have earned many over the years.



Amicus, however, seems to enjoy pissing off those to whom he is intellectually inferior.. and then, when realizing his error, to insult them. Perhaps he hopes to convince us that insults are an indicator of his intelligence? In which case, he is badly mistaken. No rose for Amicus.

 

[Saint Peter]

Awesomesauce, thank you!

Wow. That was intense.

I haven't read a lot of "Amicus Veritas [sic]" — is he always this zany?

He seems rather full of himself.



Fits this place like a glove. Maybe even an OJ glove.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Fucking racist cracker...

Hey, White Pride Worldwide, Kimosabe!

Everyone knows sweet baby Jesus was born brown but painted white by the Euro pukes...

Yeah, well, fortunately history is fairly elastic...

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I'm half hip-hop to the White Pride thing, but Jesus is just alright with me...

 

[Byron In Exile]

Or born gay, depending on where you go online to get it translated.

Baby Jesus thought we'd never have access to the Internets.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I'm half hip-hop to the White Pride thing, but Jesus is just alright with me...

That's cool. But you have to admit that if Jesus and Shiva got into a throw-down, there would be a great wailing and gnashing of teeth on the part of the Christians.

 

[Balladeer08]

I have to ask: what is it you think this says? Because "amicus veritas," is embarrassingly broken, grammatically. Two nouns together, in this case literally "friend truth," is a senseless construction in Latin.

If you were trying to say "true friend," that would be "amicus verus." If you wanted "friend of truth," or "truth's friend," that would be "amicus veritatis." What you have now translates roughly to "me not know language."

I love this thread!

Shades of Monty Python's "The Life of Brian"! The scene where the Centurion is making the vandal correct the grammar in his graffiti...

The roses are in the mail, dozens of them. Try not to enjoy the thorns too much. 8)

 

[philosophygirl]

This thread has a zombie girl's http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/uu230/SirJuggles/th_SealOfApproval.jpg

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

That's cool. But you have to admit that if Jesus and Shiva got into a throw-down, there would be a great wailing and gnashing of teeth on the part of the Christians.

Shiva shanks redemption...

 

[sigh]

I'm half hip-hop to the White Pride thing, but Jesus is just alright with me...

That's a song I didn't want in my head. Thanks a lot.