mercredi 15 avril 2015

"et lux non loqui"

MM (status in a Latin group)
I saw this on Jimmy Kimmel. any ideas on what it could mean?

et lux non loqui

25 other
comments, involving hint at "and light not to speak" but not settling on it, due to grammatical incongruence.

I bump in:
too word by word translation of phrase "and the light not to speak"?

Like "[the grace to know] and the light not to speak"? Or some such context?

I am sure it was not by a Latinist (unless very Tacitean, Tacitus is magnificently short cutting), but rather by google translate.

Guess verified:

"and light not to speak"
"et lux non loqui"

https://translate.google.com/?hc_location=ufi#en/la/and%20light%20not%20to%20speak

In other words, someone might be using some kind of roundabout tactics to give a known Latinist (which would by now include me) hints about omertà. Using google translate when not knowing Latin himself would be such a roundabout way, for instance. And yes, I am a man who has seen other hints about omertà, due to my blogs:

Φιλολoγικά/Philologica : Huius autoris bloggi
http://filolohika.blogspot.fr/p/huius-autoris-bloggi.html


Vobis quasi divinandum est in quo articulo meorum bloggorum provocavi hoc rete quod reclamat "homeritatem" (si hoc modo vertere possim vocabulum "omertà").

Forsitan quisnam sectator technologiae computatri voluit me habere lucem ut non loquar?

4 commentaires:

  1. I think it was a continuation on the joke he made earlier in the skit that lamps don't talk. Matt Damon, as a lamp, kept talking and any Kimmel fan knows about the "feud" between the two and how Kimmel is a jerk to him [as part of the joke] so when Damon spoke that quote was put up. In addition, I think it was made in terrible latin to further establish the joke of the skit that he's an incompetent teacher.

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  2. Ah, could be .... what episode would that be?

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  3. Kimmel is great. Hi there from Moscow city, Russia. summer 2019. Putin is still in the game))))

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