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Carpe Diem - Fish of the Day
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One player will provide a word or phrase in another language, and the next will furnish us with an erudite translation and then a word or phrase of their own...
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If you make me cry, I'll take you to court.

de minimis non curat lex.

It's so small the vicar can't read it.

Nu este bine sã fie omul singur.

Now is the bin-end of our Omani sangria.

Non placet

Where's the soap?

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

All hail Governor Schwarzenegger (God help us!)

On puc trobar un altre bar que estigue bé?
One ice-hockey player has been sent to the sin-bin.

La plume de ma tante est dans le sac de cacahouete

The tainted flowers are in the compost bag (lit: cack-sack).

Zusammen kämpfen!

Susan is gay!

trinosophia

This is the third time I've had to tell you to stop doing that, Sophia.

Neede was ooit een belangrijk kruispunt van spoorlijnen.

Neddy was out and bought Lilo & Stitch

kiram tu coseh nanat
Scram, you dozy ninny!

Wer rastet der rostet

Who burnt the roast?

Brennstoff-Stickstoff-Verbindungen

Teflon

Doodlesacpfeiffermachergesellenherbergenvater

Yes.

Omul prost crede tot.

A mother never believes her own child.

om tat sat

The Buddhist sat on the mat

Tuuli tuli tulliin

Finnish form of "La-la la-la la-la", sung when the singer has forgotten the words.

Non anglii, sed angeli

Not only, but also.

Maafkan saya kerana datang lambat.

Mother can say anything which lambasts Anna's dating.
...and
Tumuhutuhud makaysed a tachi.
Attach the outboard motor.

Maximus Decimus Meridius

Resolve pi to 10,000 places.

meer haast minder snelheid

I've got the complete set of Minder on video.

Mie langu jicho

My language irritates.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

The post office uses DC3s as their work horse.

¡Encima de su, compañero!

Smile at the customers, salaryman!

Schlesischer Mohnkuchen mit dicken Butterstreuseln nach original schlesischen Familienrezept

That film director man cooks Spotted Dick with butter for his family's unique reception.

Zweckmäßige Handlung, Orientation, Richtung

Deliver message by hand, face the right direction and use flowery language.

Tawelwch! Llyfrgell yw hwn, 'dach i'n gwbod.

Infidel! Bow down before us, the Klingon army!

En caso de ser victima o testigo de un delito en el Metro de Londres, llame a la British Transport Police.
If the trains break down, alternative transport by llama will be arranged by the British Transport Police.

Enchiridion indulgentiarum

And Celine Dion likes being pampered with smells.

Haws twyllo maban na gwrachan.

Prostitutes around here may not be women.

de mieren onder de vloer hebben partijen

The meerkats over there with the voles are having a great party.

Klettern Sie jedes Gebirgssegel jedes Meer

The Jedi Gerbils Collective have just joined the party and are trying to convert the meerkats to Jedi-ism.

Si fallatis officium, quaestor infitias eat se quicquam scire de factis vestris

If you are attending the sexual needs of anyone important, ask how long it will take, if anyone knows where he is and whether it will ruin your clothes.
ningit, Quinte, suntne tua ilia - sine tunica talari - glaciata?

Time warning: Competitors in this free-for-all MUST make their entries within a reasonable time. ZK came very close to having a substitute made ... please, all, take care with your timing - it is important to all parties (e.g. 7:30 for 8:00 means that I turn up at 9:00 so that I can watch everyone else make fools of themselves.)
ningit, Quinte, suntne tua ilia - sine tunica talari - glaciata?
Huh? What did I do?

Nuffin, apart from a 25 minute gap between answer/post; Anyhoo, never take anything here as personal, I simply have to prove that my existence is real and necessary. OK, where's the next party?

So, putting entries back where they belong:


ningit, Quinte, suntne tua ilia - sine tunica talari - glaciata?
Dammit, where's Quentin? He was with us a moment ago... Oh hell, we didn't leave him on the iceberg, did we?

Wenn ich lächele, habe ich eine Öffnung voll der Zähne; wenn ich die Stirn runzele, bin ich nicht hier gleichmäßig.

When I cry, I have offal full of zithering. When my stern rumbles, I don't do any glassmaking here.

Pisteuomen eis hena Theon Patera pantokratora, panton oraton te kai aoraton poiten.
Pisteuomen eis hena kyrion Iesoun Christon, ton huion tou theou, gennezenta ek tou patros monogene, toutestin ek tes ousias tou patros, theon ek theou alethinou, gennethena, ou poiethenta, homoousion toi patgri de ou ta panta egeneto, ta te en toi ouranoi kai ta epi tes ton de hemas tous anthropous kai da ten hemeteran sotererian katelthonta kai sarkothenta kai enanthropesanta, pathonta, kai anasanta tei tritei hemera, kai anelthonta eis tous othranous, kai erchomenon krinai zontas kai nekrous.
Kai eis Hagion Pneuma.
The piston is in father's underwear drawer, the underwear is being aired outside. The piston is in Kylie's bosomy chest, a ton for him, a ton for you, knees up for your father's one-legged jeans, tested on the ooze of your father, you and you with the thin ale, old jeans, or poem-ends, your manly fluids [the remainder of the text describes acts of such depravity as to endanger the reader's virtue were they to be translated].

ipso facto

NHS waiting list for Hip Replacements

Het spijt me, ik spreek geen Engels

I hate spit, me, and that bloke off Vets in Practice said it was icky too.

longum iter atque molestum eos adhuc manebat.
It's a long time at the mausoleum for anyone to smack a lion on the head. (I don't know, these Romans are crazy)

Meenya yest tree syestree ee sobarka. Ya nye paneemaiyoo p'angleeski
*overcoming temptation to translate literally* My wooden sisters are mean bitches. It's true! They spread mayonnaise on my skis and broke them.
Dio mio! E gia mezzogiorno! Dobbiamo sbrigarci!
Holy crap! The pirates threw Dobby off our balcony!

Darling, the ant got loose in the inkwell again and this time he's having an epileptic fit.

mortam sic quisquam exhorruit
If you tell the truth, you are dead!

Je jamais, ne fais jamais cela.

Pyjamas! Nice pyjamas for sale!

Veuillez appeler le directeur, il y a une grenouille dans ma toilette.

Please call Mr Arkwright, Granville's been sick in my toilet.


iudicio? quid enim saluis infamia nummis?
Eustace? Is your family so large that it costs a pound just to say hello?

Il bugiardo vuola buona memoria.

His budgerigar stole a skeleton of mine from the Mines of Moria!

scriptus et in tergo necdum finitus Orestes?
This script is a like a terd down the neck, find the writers and arrest them!

Indem er seinen Mantel anzog und seinen Hut aufsetze, lief er aus dem Zimmer. Das Baden ist hier verboten
Sign the insurance form on the mantle; it insures your hut. Leaf through it and then boil it. Ignore the bad use of verbs.
Gott sei dank
God, I'm drunk!

Du! Deinen Kartoffelsalat ist sehr gemütlich!

Oi, you! I'm going to cart you off as a salad if your mutt does that again!

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
Ents do not breed beyond necessity.

Gutta cavat lapidem.

My guts are carving a hole in my lap

Uppror med hjälp av gerillaförband är den verkliga krigföringsmetoden
Doctors are in uproar over help given to a band of guerilla fighters at the vertical Toden Arakawa Line tram service in Tokyo.
Det lyt ein gong fyrst vera.
Vera turn the light on first.

nix gigt's, fisch gibt's!
We are the knights who say Ni! We give you a herring with which to cut down the mightiest tree in this forest!

securus licet Aenean Rutulumque ferocem committas, nulli gravis est percussus Achilles aut multum quaesitus Hylas urnamque secutus
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