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Latin in Chess


  • 2 years ago · Quote · #1

    LordJones3rd

    Latin is a key part of today's society. We get 73% of our words from Latin. That is more than we get from any other language. Words like: psychology, toaster and automobile all come from Latin.

    Therefore it's no surprise that the whole language of chess is based on Latin (especially as Romans invented chess over 1 million years ago). For instance, knights are based on Roman horses, the sicilian defence is based on an opening developed in Brazil (Latin America), and en passant, is of course, Latin for: 'Oi! That's not how pawns move. You cheat!'

    Has anybody ever come across any Latin phrases in everyday life?

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #2

    theoreticalboy

    I have, yes.

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #3

    Beast719

    I like to fill in my scorecard in latin.

    And before each game I like to dishonour the pope.

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #4

    amy7

    I always speak Latin when I am disabusing my parents of any notion with which I largley disagree.  Cheeze.

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #5

    LordJones3rd

    theoreticalboy wrote:

    I have, yes.


    well what was it

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #6

    rooperi

    LordJones3rd wrote:

    Has anybody ever come across any Latin phrases in everyday life?


    Not bona fide Latin phrases, no...

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #7

    Beast719

    I met the Pope once.  He used the urinal next to me in the Vatican cafe.  I wasn't that impressed.  And he was supposed to be a Pole.  Not really a robe filler.

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #8

    LordJones3rd

    Caecilius chessum interllegent

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #9

    LordJones3rd

    Caecilius will understand chess

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #10

    Beast719

    LordJones3rd wrote:

    Caecilius chessum interllegent


     Ammo amat amas amammoth amanhattan amantidisestablishmentarianism 

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #11

    LordJones3rd

    I once watched Latin cricket. The rise and fall of the Roman umpire was most amusing

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #12

    LordJones3rd

    Beast719 wrote:
    LordJones3rd wrote:

    Caecilius chessum interllegent


     Ammo amat amas amammoth amanhattan amantidisestablishmentarianism 


    What about amalachite?

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #13

    Beast719

    I once played Dai Young and after whupping his sorry butt he used some choice Latin phrases in congratulation.  Not being I scholar I can only really remember the phonetics something about "cogito ergo sum" and "concubitus per vestri matris vos turpis"  

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #14

    bigpoison

    When I visited Honduras a few years ago, I was really sorry that I had not brushed up on my Latin.

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #15

    Beast719

    My favorite Latin phrase which I like to scream at full volume during my games to help me keep my Zen sense of decorum is:

    Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #16

    FurryFoot

    ieso christo num leokid de legato philodori non cedit

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #17

    Beast719

    My mother still says to me every day after she has made my bed:

    Semper ubi sub ubi!

    To which I usually reply

    Quod vos quoque. 

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #18

    cnjohnson

    Iay useay atinlay allay ethay imetay.

     

    ~arlesCay~

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #19

    eddiewsox

    The official motto of the City of Chicago is "u es mea" which means "Where's mine!"

  • 2 years ago · Quote · #20

    Fromper

    I only know pig latin.


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