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Latin for All Occasions

Author : Henry Beard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781592400805

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With more than 200,000 copies in print, Latin for All Occasions and its follow-up, Latin for Even More Occasions, have helped scores of readers harness the language of Caesar and Cicero. Impress your boss with Occupational Latin (Lingua Latina Occupationi); sell your product with Sales Latin (Lingua Latina Mercatoria); flirt with your classics professor with Sensual Latin (Lingua Latina Libidinosa); look like the hipster you are with Pop-Cultural Latin (Lingua Latina Popularis); survive the holidays with Familial Latin (Lingua Latina Domestica) and Celebrational Latin (Lingua Latina Festiva). It’s all here, whether you’re a student of the language or just want to talk like one. From cocktail-party banter to climbing the corporate ladder to online dating, Latin for All Occasions features dozens of handy sections, including Las Vegas Latin, Latin for Golfers, Latin for Breakups, Latin for the Politically Correct, and much, much more. In one easy-to-use volume, National Lampoon founder Henry Beard presents hundreds of listings rendered in grammatically accurate classical Latin, with a foolproof pronunciation guide. Who says Latin is a dead language? From the comic genius who brought us X-Treme Latin comes Latin for All Occasions, guaranteed to help readers delight their friends, insult their enemies, and elevate the public discourse.

Latin for All Occasions

Author : Henry Beard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1101097531

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From cocktail party chitchat, to bumper stickers, to personal ads--everything you'll ever need to say in perfect Latin! A backlistius bestsellerus.

Latin for Even More Occasions

Author : Henry Beard
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Latin language
ISBN : 9780002551342

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Designed to guide the reader through the use of Latin, this humorous book includes everyday English expressions rendered into grammatically accurate, idiomatically correct, classical Latin, with an easy-to-use pronunciation guide included. This is the sequel to Latin for all Occasions.

X-Treme Latin

Author : Henry Beard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 2005-03-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781592401048

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In staff meetings and singles bars, on freeways and fairways, there are aggravating people lurking everywhere these days. But bestselling humorist Henry Beard has the perfect comeback for all prickly situations, offering a slew of quips your nemesis won't soon forget . . . or even understand. Beard's gift is his ability to make fun of popular culture and the current zeitgeist. In X-Treme Latin he provides Latin with an attitude, an indispensable phrasebook that taps the secret power of Latin to deliver, in total safety, hundreds of impeccable put-downs, comebacks, and wisecracks. Within its pages you will learn how to insult or fire coworkers; blame corporate scandals on someone else; cheer at a World Wrestling Entertainment match; talk back to your computer, TV, or Game Boy; deal with your road rage; evade threatening situations; snowboard in style; talk like Tony Soprano; and much more. With dozens more zingers for quashing e-mail pranks, psyching out your golf opponent, giving backhanded compliments, and evading awkward questions, X-Treme Latin is destined for magnus popularity and will have readers cheering, “Celebremus!”

Laughable Latin

Author : Lesley O'Mara
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2004
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781843170976

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If your conversation lacks the Latin touch and you yearn to express yourselfs the Romans did in days gone by, then Laughable Latin is guaranteed toelieve your verbal frustration. With over 450 Latin phrases, Laughable Latins a humorous and essential guide to conversing in Latin, proving you don'teed to be in Rome to speak as the Romans did.

Which Way to the Vomitorium?

Author : Lesley O'Mara
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1466872055

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Tired of feeling like "The Ugly American" every time you visit the Vatican? Fed up with having to consult a dictionary when all you want to say is, "I've just been run over by a chariot!"? Well, now you can prepare yourself for almost every papal problem and haphazard happenstance with Which Way to the Vomitorium?: Vernacular Latin for All Occasions. Enhance your small talk at dinner parties with such gems as "Esne ebrius iterum?" (Are you drunk again?) and "Suntne illi glires novi?" (Are these dormice fresh?). Relive the tedium of traveling by introducing your children to Latin with "Paene adventimus?" (Are we nearly there yet?). With over 450 phrases and a recipe for "liquamen," Lesley O'Mara's Which Way to the Vomitorium? will have you leading that ancient Roman lifestyle in no time, teaching you everything you need to know if you want to properly pontificate with the Pontiff or survive in the Old World neighborhoods of Pompeii.

Medieval Latin

Author : K. P. Harrington
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 1997-11-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0226317137

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To help place the selections within their wider historical, social, and political contexts, Pucci has written extensive introductory essays for each of the new edition's five parts. Headnotes to individual selections have been recast as interpretive essays, and the original bibliographic paragraphs have been expanded. Reprinted from the best modern editions, the selections have been extensively glossed with grammatical notes geared toward students of classical Latin who may be reading medieval Latin for the first time.

Xtreme Latin

Author : Henry Beard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,7 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781592400140

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Bestselling humorist Beard has the perfect comeback for all prickly situations. In "X-Treme Latin" he provides Latin with an attitude, an indispensable phrasebook that taps the secret power of Latin to deliver, in total safety, hundreds of impeccable put-downs, comebacks, and wisecracks.