{"id":1839,"date":"2003-10-13T09:55:50","date_gmt":"2003-10-13T23:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/rebecca-ecce-tantae-clunes-isti-sunt\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:33:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:33:28","slug":"rebecca-ecce-tantae-clunes-isti-sunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/rebecca-ecce-tantae-clunes-isti-sunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca, ecce! tantae clunes isti sunt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;quislibet&#8217; has translated Sir Mix-A-Lot&#8217;s &#8216;Baby Got Back&#8217; into Latin, and given an English re-translation that gives some idea of how sucessful his translation efforts were. What follows is merely the beginning&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/quislibet\/164084.html\" title=\"a musical interlude\">here&#8217;s the rest<\/a>!<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<th width=\"50%\">Latin<\/th>\n<th width=\"50%\">English (re-translated)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>mehercle!<br>\nRebecca, ecce! tantae clunes isti sunt!<\/p>\n<p>amica esse videtur istorum hominum rhythmicorum.<br>\nsed, ut scis,<br>\nquis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?<br>\ncolloquuntur equidem cum ista eo tantum, quod scortum perfectum esse videtur.<br>\nclunes, aio, maiores esse!<br>\nnec possum credere quam rotondae sint.<br>\nen! quam exstant! nonne piget te earum?<br>\necce mulier Aethiops!\n<\/td>\n<td>\nBy Hercules!<br>\nRebecca, behold! Such large buttocks she has!<\/p>\n<p>She appears to be a girlfriend of one of those rhythmic-oration people.<br>\nBut, as you know<br>\nWho can understand persons of this sort?<br>\nVerily, they converse with her for this reason only, namely, that she appears to be a complete whore.<br>\nHer buttocks, I say, are rather large!<br>\nNor am I able to believe how round they are.<br>\nLo! How they stand forth! Do they not disgust you?<br>\nBehold the black woman!\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_10_01_archive.html#106591560338352218\" title=\"Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter\">Cory Doctorow<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mehercle! Rebecca, ecce! tantae clunes isti sunt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2035],"tags":[6,2419],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}