I think I may have found a noteworthy Latin tongue-twister but my Latin isn't good enough to crack it. Can anyone tell me what the following means?
Certe malus mala malum non est magnum;
tamen ego malo mala mala malo malo;
tu fortasse malis malis malis malum malum.
It seems to have to do with bad apples but I can't navigate it with complete certainty.
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First you want us to P in the pool, and now...... a whiz at Latin.
Sorry. I should probably stick to the bovine jokes.
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I thought BD was our current multi-lingual polyglot?Too bad Henri isn't here, He's a whiz at Latin. It just looks like someone scolding a dog to me, bad, bad, ba-a-ad.
It'll take a good while to peruse Perseus . . .
Yahoo! found only one page, apparently a page of jokes, but Yahoo! needs to go back to Latin 1:
Which thing vorr?ai to say?
Sure malus mala malum not east magnum;
tamen ego malo mala mala malo malo;
you fortasse malis malis malis malum malum.
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