Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur

True or false? What say you?

True. I was at the Frankfurt Opera House recently, and it has the following utterly pretentious phrase written on it: Dem Wahren, Schönen, Guten (to the true, the beautiful, the good). Couldn't help but think they could have made it a lot more pretentious had they written it in Latin.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
True. I was at the Frankfurt Opera House recently, and it has the following utterly pretentious phrase written on it: Dem Wahren, Schönen, Guten (to the true, the beautiful, the good). Couldn't help but think they could have made it a lot more pretentious had they written it in Latin.

Pretentious != Profound

So I think you mean false, not true, and ...

enim semel tibi assentior.

I dunno what you said but it sounds really profound.

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
True or false? What say you?

In wartime Malta, a British serviceman allegedly sent a letter to the Times claiming that he had discovered a piece of ancient pottery and asking if anyone could help him translate the inscription. It read:

Iti sapis potanda bigone.

Originally posted by Teinosuke
In wartime Malta, a British serviceman allegedly sent a letter to the Times claiming that he had discovered a piece of ancient pottery and asking if anyone could help him translate the inscription. It read:

Iti sapis potanda bigone.

I say it has to do with "bathroom" humour.

Just saying.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
True. I was at the Frankfurt Opera House recently, and it has the following utterly pretentious phrase written on it: Dem Wahren, Schönen, Guten (to the true, the beautiful, the good). Couldn't help but think they could have made it a lot more pretentious had they written it in Latin.

Probabaly but hey, Germans are not a pretentious nation are they?
Well at least not Frankfurters anyway...apparently.