Expert: Maria - 7/5/2009

Question
Do you know what the following sentences mean?

Nunc ac nibh orci, ac venenatis diam. Nulla facilisi. Donec interdum, velit sed aliquet dapibus, ipsum quam placerat libero, non sagittis mi velit id ligula. Aliquam erat volutpat. Quisque ac nisl vestibulum odio lobortis molestie nec amet.

Answer
Hello,

Actually the passage you wrote is nothing else but a  series of pseudo-Latin words  that pass one after the other without a true meaning.

Therefore such a passage makes no sense at all and then cannot be translated.

The only thing I can tell you is the meaning of some Latin words that one by one have a sense, like NUNC which means “now”; DONEC which means “until”; SAGITTIS which means “by the arrows”; QUISQUE which means “every”, but  they all have no sense in this context where both Latin grammar (endings/ cases/ agreements) and syntax are absolutely wrong.

Latin  is in fact an inflected language with five declensions, six cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, ablative) and fixed syntactical rules and relationships.

To conclude, I have to tell you that he who wrote such a Dog Latin or mock-Latin does not know Latin at all!!

Regards,
Maria