Friday, September 29, 2006

Ego ipse inodiaro

Today's game: translate that sentence.

9 comments:

sky said...

ok, so i tried finding latin to english translators. I couldn't find any that found Inodiaro.
Ego = I, self
Ipse = Herself, Himself, Itself.

however, if Inodiate comes from the word Inodiaro it means to make hateful or odious.

so i'm curious. what is it?

Anonymous said...

cheating off of sky's paper, i'm guessing it means: "i hate her, therefore, i hate myself." close?

BarCentrale said...

A few hints:

inodiate != inodiare (its close but not quite the same)

You are right about ego and very close about ipse but you seem to be making assumptions about the sentence's meaning and that's messing up the translation. The best hint I can give (without giving it away) is this: ipse does not serve the role of object nor does it serve the role of direct object (oh noes! grammar!).

Anonymous said...

grammar! my sworn enemy!

sky said...

and the sentence is...?

BarCentrale said...

Ok, so acknowledging that I could be totally wrong about this (its been several years since I took Latin), I believe the translation is: I make myself odious. i.e. I make myself repugnant.

sky said...

i dunno about making ourself/ yourself odious. but i know we choose our own hells.

jess said...

multiple hells? that hardly seems fair.

Anonymous said...

why did it give me an underlined name for the last comment? so confusing...