Irregular Webcomic!

Archive     Cast     Forum     RSS     Podcast     Poll Results     FAQ     Search     News     Facebook     Fan Art     More Stuff     Random
<   No. 1756   2007-11-17   >

Comic #1756

1 Ginny: "Anno Domini MDCCXCVII; Dux Ducum minimus thesaurum Lutetiam emovit."
2 Ginny: We should leave here before I read any more. We don't want the Joneses to know where the Palladium went.
3 Haken: We should just shoot them!
4 Erwin: We should have just shot them every other time we captured them. Why change now?

First (1) | Previous (1755) | Next (1757) || Latest Rerun (85) | Latest New (3213)
First 5 | Previous 5 | Next 5 | Latest 5
Cliffhangers theme: First | Previous | Next | Latest || First 5 | Previous 5 | Next 5 | Latest 5
This strip's permanent URL: http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1756.html
Annotations off: turn on
Annotations on: turn off

Every time I use Latin in the comic, I have to ask someone to do the translation for me, because my knowledge of Latin is very rudimentary. The problem is that whenever I ask for a Latin translation, I get several different versions, which conflict not only in word choice, but in verb tense, noun declension, word order, and all those other fiddly bits of grammar for which Latin is so justifiably notorious.

The result, invariably, is that I end up with something which is as correct as I can make it, given my own meagre knowledge and mutually incompatible advice from multiple quarters, but which still inevitably contains mistakes that several dozen readers have enough Latin to spot immediately.

So yes, there are probably mistakes in the Latin.


Following some advice from a reader with a couple of Masters degrees in Latin language and culture, I have modified Ginny's dialogue slightly. Hopefully now there are fewer bones of contention in it. :-)

LEGO® is a registered trademark of the LEGO® Group of companies, which does not sponsor, authorise, or endorse this site.
This material is presented in accordance with the LEGO® Fair Play Guidelines.

Irregular Webcomic! | Darths & Droids | mezzacotta | Lightning Made of Owls | Square Root of Minus Garfield | Awkward Fumbles | Comments on a Postcard
Last Modified: Saturday, 17 November 2007; 02:11:02 PST.
© 2002-2011 Creative Commons License
This work is copyright and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Licence by David Morgan-Mar. dmm@irregularwebcomic.net
Hosted by: DreamHost