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Thread #63406   Message #1031615
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
08-Oct-03 - 03:05 AM
Thread Name: Help: Latin phrase?
Subject: RE: Help: Latin phrase?
Wolfgang - shouldn't it be potum instead of portum? Sounds more like the Pott.
For foreigners: Wolfgang's joke can only be deciphered in its true sense by Germans; navigare meant schiffen = to go by boat in older German, but now only to piss.
Students are used to express their wish for a short leave to the loo politely with the words navigare necesse est, but not with the intention of supporting the Imperial Navy.
McGrath - another version of cows and ducks:
Civile si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
Gnoses mare Thebe trux
Vatis inem
Causan dux.