Fun with Latin!!! (aka: I have no life)

[xanithofdragons]

Amazing! I'm actually posting!

So yeah, I have this crazy idea that I want to get a 5 on the AP Latin test, so anything that could improve my Latin skillz would help out with that a lot. There's also the fact that there's a slight chance I could get onto the Ohio certamen team for NJCL. And I'm going to be taking several tests at NJCL anyway. (Even if I can't make it into competitive certamen, I'll still be doing open certamen :))

So, with that and my newfound love for Franz Ferdinand's song "Michael" (btw, best band name ever), I've decided to do something really nerdy and translate the lyrics of that song into Latin, as well as I possibly can.

Resources used: http://e-lyrics.org/song.php?id=184 for the lyrics, The New College Latin and English Dictionary, and previous Latin knowledge gained from schooling.

Hic est qua erim, tam caelestis,
vene et salta mecum Michael
tam venustus, sum venustus,
vene et salta mecum Michael
Sum omnem quem vides, videre vis,
vene et salta mecum Michael
tam propinquus nunc, tam propinquus nunc
vene et salta mecum, vene et salta mecum, vene et salta mecum

Michael,
es puer cum omnibus coxis scorteis, [on an interesting side note, this word seems to be associated with prostitutes]
capillis viscosis, coxis viscosis, stipula in meo ore viscoso

Michael,
es solus unus quem umquam cupio
solus unus quem umquam cupio
solus unus quem umquam cupio
Pulchri pueri in pulchro pavimento saltante

Michael,
saltas tamquam pulchrum scortum saltante
Michael,
manens in lance argentea nunc ... et nihil magni est nunc

Hic est qui sum, sum vir
vene et salta mecum Michael
tam fortis nunc, fortis est nunc
vene et salta mecum Michael
Sum omnem quem vides, videre vis
vene et salta mecum Michael
tam propinquus nunc, propinquus est nunc
vene et salta mecum, vene et salta mecum, VENE ET SALTA MECUM

Michael,
es puer cum omnibus coxis scorteis,
capillis viscosis, coxis viscosis, stipula in meo ore viscoso

Michael,
es solus unus quem umquam cupio
solus unus quem umquam cupio
solus unus quem umquam cupio
Pulchri pueri in pulchro pavimento saltante

Michael,
saltas tamquam pulchrum scortum saltante
Michael
manens in lance argentea nunc ... et nihil magni est nunc

Michael,
es solus unus quem umquam cupio
solus unus quem umquam cupio
solus unus quem umquam cupio
(bis)

Pulchri pueri in pulchro pavimento saltante
Michael,
saltas tamquam pulchrum scortum saltante
Michael, manens in lance argentea nunc, nihil magni est nunc, nihil
magni est sed tu

Comments

[whydeevee.livejournal.com]

:OO Awesome! Yeah, I totally just noticed this. xDD;;

But the question is, does it fit?

[xanithofdragons.livejournal.com]

Eh? Does what fit?

[whydeevee.livejournal.com]

Do the lyrics fit the song? Like. Can you sing it? xD;