BS: Translation to Latin needed

Subject: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 02:48 PM

There's a meeting coming up and the theme is

Eat, Think, Share

For a HUGE variety of reasons, we also need to have

Eat, Drink, Share

on the back of the tee shirts.

My Latin is very, very rusty. Would someone please translate these two phrases into Latin for me? (Others languages would also be appreciated.)

Thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: heric
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 03:01 PM

Bevanda, Lotta, Scopata

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: bubblyrat
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 03:23 PM

ETEN--DENKEN--DEEL
   and
    ETEN--DRINKEN--DEEL.....
   
    In Dutch.

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 03:55 PM

vesco, cogito, tribuo
vesco, bibo, tribuo
... the roots, anyway...
ttr

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: mg
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 05:41 PM

I like the dutch the best. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 06:59 PM

vescamus, cogitamus, tribuamus

we eat, we think, we share
ttr

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 08:13 PM

cenare, cogitare, consociare

(That's using the infinitive - "to eat, to think, to share", which I think might be more likely in this kind of motto.

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: HuwG
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 12:10 AM

Cene ! Cogite ! Consoce ! (sing.)
Cenete ! Cogitete ! Consocite ! (pl.)

Uses the imperative, possible even more appropriate.

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: heric
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 12:23 AM

Eat me!    (Propriety depends on who's attending, I think.)

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 04:57 AM

And the prize goes to McGrath of Harlow.

Or you could use the imperative pl.:

Cenate, cogitate, consociate.

Or the subjunctive, 3rd person pl. (let's ...)

Cenemus, cogitemus, consociemus.

And do you really want to exclude joyful drinking?

bibere - bibite - bibamus.

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: bubblyrat
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 07:34 AM

NUNC EST BIBENDUM !!

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 07:45 AM

... nunc pede libero
pulsanda tellus, nunc saliaribus
ornare pulvinar deorum,
tempus erat dapibus, sodales!

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 06:39 PM

Using the infinitive is a way of avoiding the choice between singular or plural.

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: Folkiedave
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 06:52 PM

GCE Latin (failed).

Dave (I think the imperative is best).

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: HuwG
Date: 27 Mar 07 - 04:12 PM

... Or the subjunctive, 3rd person pl. (let's ...)

Cenemus, cogitemus, consociemus.

I presume that's a slip for the 1st person pl. present subjunctive, otherwise known as the hortative subjunctive

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: bubblyrat
Date: 27 Mar 07 - 07:27 PM

I always thought that that was a legal device to prevent prostitution ??

Subject: RE: BS: Translation to Latin needed
From: The Walrus
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 03:48 AM

It's all Greek to me!