Can someone tell me what this means?Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam- translate????????
2007-06-15 08:52:35 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
it is latin.
2007-06-15 09:03:40 · update #1
I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.
Hope that helps ;)
2007-06-15 08:58:41 · answer #1 · answered by chris_keever2000 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll try...
I have a catapult. If you don't give me all your money, I will send a huge rock at your head.
Literally: "Catapult I-have. If-not money all to-me you-give, to head yours rock huge I-will-send." That's how they talked in ancient Rome.
2007-06-15 15:58:13 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish everyone studying any language would see these translations. They're great examples of how impossible it is to translate word for word from one language to another. When we translate, it's necessary to understand the core meaning and then put it into our language. We translate one good quote into another good quote in the second language. This is called idiomatic (from "idiom"=language) usage. That is, correct usage in both languages.
2007-06-15 18:15:02 · answer #3 · answered by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋