Latin for All Occasions - Henry Beard

...after I had completed a Latin seminar (what would turn out to be the last of my language courses as an undergraduate). It was a wonderful gift, and I have found much use for the various phrases, and an extraordinary amount of humour that can be derived from the blandest of statements when translated into Latin. For example, the innocuous phrase 'Darn! There goes my beeper!' becomes quite funny in Latin: Heu! Tintinnuntius meus sonat! One has visions ...
...there be a word in Latin for beeper (or bleeper)? Such things did not exist. Author Henry Beard had to improvise, but then again, that is what langauges have been doing, well, at least since the Roman times. One can see the derivative of the proposed word for beeper in the same word for the inner-ear disturbance ttinnitus. Beepers are often disturbances of the outer ear, so the word fits. Alas, there is no single symposium on the additions to Latin ...

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