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[jackofallgeeks]

I actually got these:


Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.
"I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't a poem."
You are a type A personality. You like bright
things, you don't call in sick to work, and you
have devastating opinions about art.


Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis.
"You do not know the power of the Dark
Side." There are two possibilities: you
are a Star Wars geek, or you are unreasoningly
scary.



And I really just liked these:

Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
"Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just glad to see me?"

Lagunculae leydianae non accedunt.
"Batteries not included."

Volo anaticulum cumminosam meam!
"I want my rubber ducky!"

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[bsgnome.livejournal.com]

Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.
"I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't a poem."

Literally: "I don't care. If it doesn't have meter, it's not a poem."

That was just bugging me--the others are accurate enough (i.e. I don't care enough to figure out exactly what "lagunculae leydianae" translates as).

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

-laughs-
Yeah, I'd caught that, but what is meter if not rhyming? More precicely, how would you say 'rhyme' im Latin if not 'metrum habet'?

[bsgnome.livejournal.com]

Well it's a modern English-speaking misconception that the nature of poetry is to rhyme--that simply isn't the case. Rhyme schemes are relatively a recent convention. The nature of poetry is to have a meter (the avant-garde can whine all they want "Si metrum non habet, non est poema"). Meter is determined by the stress of the words: whenever you say something, you stress certain words--try reading some poetry out load, and you'll see what I mean. The rhyme scheme is just an appended gimic--much like allitteration or assonation.

As to how one would say "rhyme" in Latin ... hold up ::runs off to do some impromptu online research:: well, if you go back far enough in your etymology, "rhyme" does in fact mean the same thing as "meter," but the modern connotations vary enough, to my mind, that I think a distinction need be made.

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

Ah, but you see, we're talking Latin here, and if, as you say, rhyme being anything other than meter is a modern phenomenon, then why would there be any other way to say it in Latin?

[bsgnome.livejournal.com]

That's just the point, there wouldn't be.
Unless you want to be overly technical, and translate the phrase "If there is not correspondance in the terminal sound, it's not a poem."