Extricandae copiae

My wife asked me to do that to her, I think. Naughty girl.

Cool.

Pronunciation?

I still prefer the old Ellen Ripley line...
'Gorman get yr troops OUT of there!'
You know...before the Augustean wail starts up like,'Varus, give me back my legions!'

Pronunciation?

Roughly: Ex-tri-KAHN-dye CO-pee-aye.

Or think of it this way: "copiae" is pronounced like the English "copious," except the last syllable is like "aye," as in "aye, aye, sir." The first two syllables of "extricandae" are like the first two of "extricate," and the last two are like "Hyundai".

ex-tree-cand-eye cope-ee-eye.

Why not just change the anglicism to the appropriate ablative case: Extricatia clusterfucko prontus?

I think it would be generally understood.

On Sunday I asked for a nice Latin translation of "We must leave Iraq."

What next? How about a French translation? *Snicker*

Yes! because liberals do not enough of a problem getting their message across.

Extricatia clusterfucko prontus?

clustercoitus interruptus?

There's always the oldie but goodie "Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert!"

G C D G

G
Brezhnev took Afghanistan

C
Begin took Beirut
D G
Galtieri took the Union Jack
G
And Maggie, over lunch one day,
C
Took a cruiser with all hands
D G
Apparently to make him give it back
C G
Mm________

And what happened to the "sunt"?

If I'm a Selt Then You're A Sunt

Al: "What next? How about a French translation? *Snicker*"

Sure thing, Al: You are a stinking piece of 'merde'!
How's that for ya?

Just for Al, who snickers, but of course, had we listened to the French, we would not be trying to come up with clever slogans in Latin to express the need to bail out of George Bush's worst decision ever.

Partez Irak! or possibly, if you want to be very French, "Il faut que nous partions d'Irak."

Still I think the Latin works better. It has that whole warrior/empire tone to it.

If the legendary Catonian statement is the model then the updated slogan needs a form of the verb "to be"--in this case, the third-person plural "sunt"--which has been omitted.

Translated back into English:

Quick exit

Somebody start making bumper stickers.

I'll buy one! Please, Kevin, if someone contacts you that they've had some made, let us know.

It pleases. Verbiage omitted, has the pithy, punchy ring of, well, me.

By Jove I wish I could get hands on this war. What a job I could do with it.

Perhaps someone can create a CafePress account and design a line of products.

That's asinine Latin. The first thing a Roman would see in that would be "the wealth must be disentangled", or "the riches must be removed", assuming a *sunt*.

"What next? How about a French translation? *Snicker*"

Sure. Who wants to translate "We told you so."

Translating your phrase into latin is a lot of fun - but perhaps you should recall that the reason the original was in latin was that was Cato's native language. I think you've learned the wrong lesson from history. The right lesson - if you've got opinion and a soap box, shout it out in a language clear to all. A modern example might be Keith Olbermann's frequent habit of ending his show by counting the number of days since the President announced "mission accomplished." He kindly does so in English, the native language of most of his viewers.

We'll also need a version in 1930's-era German, so that Al and Egbert can read it.

Commenters above are correct. The passive periphrastic requires a form of the verb esse and takes the dative of agent. The dative plural is -as not -ae. -ae is the nominative plural or dative singular

Copias extricandas sunt.

Militibus extricandis sunt might be more recognizable.

Sounds like something Harry Potter would yell just before zapping Voldemort.

Romanes eunt domus!

(And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.)

We should remember the Gospels and the passage beginning "Nunc dimittis" (by which abbreviation the whole is known).

(Roughly)
Now, Lord, let us go in peace.

Now write it 100 times by sunrise or I'll cut your balls off!

Whoa, Ekim! You better lay off the pedantry when you don't know what you're talking about. First, the dative plural in the first declension ends in -is, not -as. Second, the dative of agent is used to identify the person or persons who are the cause of the action being taken, not the person or persons who are subject to that action; so if you wanted to say, "the troops must be pulled out by us," you would put "us" in the dative, copiae nobis extricandae sunt. Finally, elision of the verb esse in the gerundive is perfectly acceptable Latin, and is in fact preferred literary style. So sunt should be left out, pace you, Ross Best, and a guy from New Jersey.

Copiae extricandae! (No alterations necessary)

Great.

Now Jonah Goldberg and Rich Lowry will retaliate with "Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out" in Klingon.

And Veneral Disease Hanson will accuse you of Reconquista dhimmitude.

How about "These Colors Run Like Hell?"

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

That will teach me to try to compose in Latin at 7 in the morning.

Here is a bumpersticker for you. But you'll need to talk to Gary Trudeau before you use it.

You can custom make one-off bumper stickers at
http://www.makestickers.com/

Here's my go at a bumper sticker, for anybody who wants it; there's a JPEG preview and then the PDF file.

http://neuecolossus.squarespace.com/journal/extricandae-copiae.html

... maxima culpa. ekim at 11:21 AM

Better bumpersticker, better latin:

exercitus exeat ~ get the army out!

(exercitus ~ army; exeat ~ 3pers. singular, present subjunctive functioning as imperative)

Kevin:Somebody start making bumper stickers.

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I have already ordered two, "I Hate Iambic Pentameter," and "Back to Beowulf" ( I have strong opinions regarding literature. ) But Latin imprecations hurled at George Bush would be fine. After all, he appears to have difficulties with English.

Why you would want to quote a warmongering prick like Cato anyway is beyond me. Instead you should be quoting someone like, well, me.

Here is a better description of the Bush administration. Put THIS on a bumper sticker...

Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.

'"empire" is their false name for plunder, slaughter, pillage, and when they make a desert, they call it peace.'

either that or "when they make a dessert, they call it peach" I'm still new at this language.

I've started writing my posthumous history of the Bush years. It begins "The first crime of the new presidency was...

Nah.

Sounds like "Extra copies" or something.

Not at all stirring.

Try some other dead languages?

Man I hated taking latin in high school. Thanks for reminding me why.

You want French, Al? Here it is:

Nous vous avons conté!

You want French, Al? Here it is:

Nous vous avons conté!

How about etgay hetay roopstay utoyay?

Oh wait ...

Extricandae copiae

Are Catholics allowed to do that?

While we're cribbing off of Cato, why don't we use a parallel construction?

copiae extricandae sunt

That way at least one or two more people might get the allusion.

sunt

heh heh heh

Fuzzy said what I was thinking: Sounds like something Harry Potter would yell just before zapping Voldemort.

And I think rewolfrats' easy-to-grasp Extricatia clusterfucko prontus! is the way to go.

Making getting the troops out seem like a liberal smart-ass position isn't the way to get the troops out in this era.

Cute as it sounds.

The best non-Latin of all time:

non illegitimi carborundum.

[Don't let the bastards wear you down.]

Come on guys, especially Lampwick--you sound like you should know better--, you can't just open up the back of an English-Latin/Latin-English dictionary, pick out the "equivalent" Latin to some English words and sow them together, no matter how good your grasp of syntax, into a reliably good Latin sentence. The result just looks stupid, like extricandae copiae. David Houghton's on the right track, and Tacitus (the real one) even more promising.

secedo ex iraq iam! secedo iam!
withdraw from iraq now! withdraw now!

servo nostrum copiae!
save our troops!

servo nos ex malum, servo nos ex bush!
save us from evil, save us from bush!

licentia iraq statim!
leave iraq now!

veneratio verum , veneratio copiae. subjectio inhonesto totus. addo copiae domus iam!
honor truth, honor our troops. lies dishonor all. bring our troops home now!

Iraq est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum incolunt Sunni, aliam Shi'a, ...

Wait, what were we talking about again?

Since nobody else did I finally made one. I made it as low cost as possible for you kids.

http://www.cafepress.com/leftee/3058776