Latin in the work place

[pugwash4x4]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8375511....

City boss Denies lewd claim after sending the latin "phrase" irrumabo vos et pedicabo vos to a worker

My rust latin couldn't quite translate this- Google is your friend

"I will bugger you and face-fk you"

umm.........

[Saddle bum]

Nil illigitumus carborundum.

[Don]

He was quoting from a poem in which the poet Catullus (iirc) was telling a number of his contemporary competitors to feck right off, basically.

Personally I think the old goat was unwise in the extreme to include it in an email given the PC nature of today's society. He'll be arguing he was illustrating a point with a quotation from classic poetry. She'll be arguing she deserves a huge payday for having to read something she needed to Google in order to understand.

Hmmm.

[bobthemonkey]

Caecilius est in horto.

[JagLover]

She wasn't actually an employee but a friend of his sons who he was having an E-mail exchange with.

Moreover part of their discussion was exchanging Latin phrases.

I would agree though that in today's climate of women seeking an easy pay day once they have had enough of the pressures of city life, that the boss has to be careful of every E-mail and word they say.

[Ganglandboss]

Alan Partridge said:

I'd like to make an enquiry about two supplementary auxiliary speakers to go with my midi hi-fi system, apro po achieving surround sound. Apro po. I mean, it's Latin, isn't it? Well, you ought to have a basic grasp of Latin if you're working in Curry's.

[andy400]

bobthemonkey said:

Caecilius est in horto.

Hic Haec Hoc

[pugwash4x4]

ecce romani?

still don't think i'd send that message in any language to a female friend of my son!

[Asterix]

[nonplussed]

errare humanum est

[Don]

nonplussed said:

errare humanum est

Non excretum donat.

[andy_s]

Cui bono, that's what I'd like to know. Bloody Romans.

[Muzzlehatch]

Romanes eunt domus Romani ite domum!

[nonplussed]

Don said:

nonplussed said:

errare humanum est

Non excretum donat.

"don't talk ste?"

[Halb]

Carpe Jugulum

[andy400]

'idem stercus, alies dies' which could be my personal work motto, if I've got it right.......

[Don]

nonplussed said:

Don said:

nonplussed said:

errare humanum est

Non excretum donat.

"don't talk ste?"

"Don't give a st"

[Halb]

two of my faves.

1. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
2. "Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant."

[Pat H]

andy400 said:

bobthemonkey said:

Caecilius est in horto.

Hic Haec Hoc

Grumio et ancilla in villam venit.

[Oystercatcher]

Fabricati Diem, punc