Obama is Latin for what?
October 15, 2008A few days ago, Maureen Dowd, the eternally irritable op-ed columnist for the NY Times wrote a piece on McCain and Obama. The later half of the column was translated at her request into Latin by a professor because of a recent article she read relating the resurgence of teaching Latin in classrooms.
Here is the first paragraph translated by me, more to come, maybe!
Manes Julii Caesaris paucis diebus aderant — “O, most bloody sight!” — cum Ioannes McCainus, mavericus et veteranus captivusque Belli Francoindosinini, et Sara Palina, barracuda borealis, qui sneerare amant Baracum Obamam causa oratorii, pillorant ut demagogi veri, Africanum-Americanum senatorem Terrae Lincolni, ad Republicanas rallias.
The ghost of Julius Caesar for a few days was present – “O, most bloody sight!” when John McCain, maverick and captive veteran (P.O.W.) of the Franco-indonesian War (Vietnam), and Sarah Palin, Barracuda of the North, who love to sneer at Barack Obama on account of [his] oratory, pillory the African American Senator of the land of Lincoln, at Republican rallies.
