Conversational Latin
Isn't it always the case that you're at a Ren Faire or Pagan Festival, and you'd love to spout off some appropriate Latin, but you just don't have the right phrase handy? This list of easily memorizable phrases should come in handy!

Latin (at least approximately) English
Die dulci fruere. Have a nice day.
Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi. Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog.
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam. I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.
Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare. I think some people in togas are plotting against me.
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.
Noli me vocare, ego te vocabo. Don't call me, I'll call you.
Cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules. If I were you, I wouldn't walk in front of any catapults.
Canis meus id comedit. My dog ate it.
Illiud Latine dici non potest. You can't say that in Latin.
Nullo metro compositum est. It doesn't rhyme.
Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema. I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't a poem.
Fac ut gaudeam. Make my day.
Re vera, potas bene. Say, you sure are drinking a lot.
Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant! May barbarians invade your personal space!
Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant! May conspirators assassinate you in the mall!
Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant! May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!


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