Originally forwarded by Alice Gomez and published in Tom Gill Predicts in October 2000, here are (at least allegedly...)
Common Latin phrases you can use every day.
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Perscripto in manibus tabellariorum est.
The check is in the mail.
Dulci fruere.
Have a nice day.
Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi.
Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog.
Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.
Magister Mundi sum!
I am the Master of the Universe!
Fac me cocleario vomere!
Gag me with a spoon!
Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.
Noli me vocare, ego te vocabo.
Don't call me, I'll call you.
Vacca foeda
Stupid cow
Raptus regaliter
Royally screwed
Canis meus id comedit.
My dog ate it.
Fac ut gaudeam.
Make my day.
Braccae illae virides cum subucula rosea et tunica Caledonia-quam elenganter concinnatur!
Those green pants go so well with that pink shirt and the plaid jacket!
Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio.
Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway.
Flexilis sum, gluten es, me resilit, ad te haeret.
I'm rubber, you're glue, bounces off me, sticks to you.
Radix lecti
Couch potato
Spero nos familiares mansuros.
I hope we'll still be friends.
Mellita, domi adsum!
Honey, I'm home!
Ventis secundis, tene cursum.
Go with the flow.
Totum dependeat.
Let it all hang out.
Prehende uxorem meam, sis!
Take my wife, please!
Vescere bracis meis.
Eat my shorts.
Sic faciunt omnes.
Everyone is doing it.
Fac ut vivas.
Get a life.
Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!
If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, high- paying world of Latin!
Sona si Latine loqueris.
Honk if you speak Latin.
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