X-Treme Latin: All the Latin You Need to Know for Survival in the 21st Century

by Henry Beard

Paperback, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

477

Publication

Gotham (2005), Edition: Blg Rep, Paperback, 128 pages

Description

In staff meetings and singles bars, on freeways and fairways, there are aggravating people lurking everywhere these days. But bestselling humorist Henry Beard has the perfect comeback for all prickly situations, offering a slew of quips your nemesis won't soon forget . . . or even understand. Beard's gift is his ability to make fun of popular culture and the current zeitgeist. In X-Treme Latin he provides Latin with an attitude, an indispensable phrasebook that taps the secret power of Latin to deliver, in total safety, hundreds of impeccable put-downs, comebacks, and wisecracks. Within its pages you will learn how to insult or fire coworkers; blame corporate scandals on someone else; cheer at a World Wrestling Entertainment match; talk back to your computer, TV, or Game Boy; deal with your road rage; evade threatening situations; snowboard in style; talk like Tony Soprano; and much more. With dozens more zingers for quashing e-mail pranks, psyching out your golf opponent, giving backhanded compliments, and evading awkward questions, X-Treme Latin is destined for magnus popularity and will have readers cheering, "Celebremus!"… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member cjoymr
This is a hilariously funny book! I f you ever wanted to know how to say, "Okay tailgater, time for a brake check!" or "Don't diss me unless you can speak Latin!" in Latin you'll find it in here. It is full of one-liners, come-backs, put-downs, take-downs, etc. which are made all the more funny by
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being totally incomprehensible to your 'victim'.

Mind you, it's not a book for small eyes. Unless, that is, you want your child to be able to tell the bully at school to go F--- themselves in several different cases, moods, declensions, etc.
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LibraryThing member dragonfairy
This was a fun and amusing read. There were lots of cool quotes that were both funny in the english translation and in the latin one. For example the bumper sticker slogan 'Malim praedari' which translates into 'I'd rather be pillaging,' or the joke on reality tv 'Impetus Pistricum in Insignes'
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which translates into 'Celebrity Shark Attack.' X-Treme Latin is a fun and quick read that is sure to give you lots of laughs and is great coffee table humor.
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Physical description

128 p.; 7.5 inches

ISBN

159240104X / 9781592401048
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