Latin Translation Help

[mrplow2]

Hey,

So i'm thinking about getting a tattoo. I'm having alot of trouble finding a latin translator (I don't trust the free automated ones).

Just wondering if anyone here is familiar with latin?

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." Is what I would like translated.

*crosses fingers*

Thank you :}

 

[ZOS23xy]

Google "Babel Fish" and you should be able to get something. There are a variety of translaters on the web. However, it doesn't mean you'll get what you want.

 

[Drifterwood]

Nihil sub sole novum.

You're being verbose.

 

[unique_exposure]

How long is this body part? Thats a long sentence.

Its tough to find a good latin sentence translator, there are mostly dictionaries.

I would go with "insane repetition"
repetitio (feminine noun) insana (adjective)

(* these are possible base words but I'm not entirely sure the -a/-us feminine/masc structure is right. For something as permanent as a tattoo, please, ask a professor!)

Edit: ...or something like "repetition with no result"

 

[Mem]

Just wondering if anyone here is familiar with latin?

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." Is what I would like translated.

*crosses fingers*

Thank you :}

Mis ChiChis son grande.

 

[Mem]

Hey,

So i'm thinking about getting a tattoo. I'm having alot of trouble finding a latin translator (I don't trust the free automated ones).

Just wondering if anyone here is familiar with latin?

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." Is what I would like translated.

*crosses fingers*

Thank you :}

Go to a priest or doctor, they should be able to speak some Latin.

Just get it done in English is a fancy script.

No matter how you get it done, someone will tell you it's wrong.

"over and over" is an English idiom (saying). I know that in Spanish it would be translated to "repeatedly; once and again; once and another time; without stopping".

The word "over" alone in Spanish (based on Latin) means above or on top of.

Insanity may be translated into craziness or being insane.

I say go for a nice astrological symbol instead. :biggrin1:

That's why a girl wants the Chinese symbol for woman on her, but without context, as a symbol, it implies that she is a lesbian.

 

[unique_exposure]

Or you could go with the Latin prison tat, or the blackout drunk mistake tat...

"mihi nomen est pathicus"

("My name is 'one who fucks butts' ")
:tongue:

 

[B_Nick4444]

www.thelatintranslator.com

 

[HazelGod]

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." Is what I would like translated.

Just skip the text and get Al tatted on your skin.

 

[mrplow2]

Go to a priest or doctor, they should be able to speak some Latin.

Just get it done in English is a fancy script.

No matter how you get it done, someone will tell you it's wrong.

"over and over" is an English idiom (saying). I know that in Spanish it would be translated to "repeatedly; once and again; once and another time; without stopping".

The word "over" alone in Spanish (based on Latin) means above or on top of.

Insanity may be translated into craziness or being insane.

I say go for a nice astrological symbol instead. :biggrin1:

That's why a girl wants the Chinese symbol for woman on her, but without context, as a symbol, it implies that she is a lesbian.

Yeah. I kind of figured that I would have to paraphrase it slightly because some words will be lost in translation.

 

[str821]

Your sentence can be translated absolutely literally. You'd be surprised how similar what you can say in Latin is to what you can say in English. In the next day or so, I'll do it for you with the requisite checking. People are right though when they say that your sentence is verbose for a dictum or motto like you seem to see this as being. Even Roman prose writers found concise ways and used words implied by grammar and context (both literal and social) when expressing the sort of thing that you are trying to express. I wonder why, if you don't know Latin, you want the language tattooed on you. Isn't putting a motto in Latin a bit cliche?

 

[King_ding_a_ling]

As an English speaking individual I found getting Latin tattooed on my skin a good way to say what I want and as a personal laugh. Because English has become what Latin once was.

 

[petite]

You might have more success getting a more accurate or more eloquent translation if you asked this question on WordReference.com or a language forum. Not that the people on LPSG aren't well-educated, but the discussions there might be more thorough and helpful.

 

[D_Anton_Pavlovich_Jerkhov]

Hey,

So i'm thinking about getting a tattoo. I'm having alot of trouble finding a latin translator (I don't trust the free automated ones).

Just wondering if anyone here is familiar with latin?

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." Is what I would like translated.

*crosses fingers*

Thank you :}

Insania est idem identidem agere ac eventum alium exspectare.

This is my broken attempt. Before using it, please check with someone else from wordreference.com, as another member has advised you to.

 

[HungThickProf]

Insania est idem identidem agere ac eventum alium exspectare.

This is my broken attempt. Before using it, please check with someone else from wordreference.com, as another member has advised you to.

That actually looks right! The great thing about latin is that you can put the words anywhere, it's the endings, declensions, and conjugations of nouns, verbs and adverbs that dictate the positioning in the sentence.

 

[Mem]

Watch out for this too, especially in a foreign language.

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[Drifterwood]

Equum ad aquam ducere vis.

 

[mrplow2]

1) Dementia est idem etiam atque etiam facere et aliud eventum expectare.

2) Dementia est idem etiam atqve etiam facere, aliud ēventum expectāns.

3) Dementia est idem identidem facere, aliud ēventum expectāns.

4) Eadem cum aliter evenire exspectet identidem facere est insani.

I got 4 translations

 

[Mem]

1) Dementia est idem etiam atque etiam facere et aliud eventum expectare.

2) Dementia est idem etiam atqve etiam facere, aliud ēventum expectāns.

3) Dementia est idem identidem facere, aliud ēventum expectāns.

4) Eadem cum aliter evenire exspectet identidem facere est insani.

I got 4 translations

You must have early dementia. :biggrin1:

 

[B_Nick4444]

or quadrementia?