The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #36851   Message #511716
Posted By: Joe Offer
20-Jul-01 - 10:06 PM
Thread Name: Requesting some help - German Toasts
Subject: RE: Requesting some help
It's interesting that the usual German toast is "Prosit" or "Prost" - Latin for "may it go your way" or "may it be good for you." A well-known German drinking song is "Gaudeamus Igitur," written in Latin but never sung by Caesar and his cronies.
And, I mustn't forget the the best-known words of the Latin Mass are "Kyrie eleison" (Greek for "Lord have mercy").
Shoots theories of ethnic purity all to hell, doesn't it?
-Joe Offer-