Guess the song, anybody?

[conuly]

1. Mica, mica, parva stella!
Miror quaenam sis tam bella!
Splendens eminus in illo
Alba velut gemma, caelo
Mica, mica, parva stella!
Miror quaenam sis tam bella

2. Tres mures! Tres mures!
Caeci currunt! Caeci currunt!
Erat uxor agricolae,
Quae caudas secuit cultro.
Vidistine magis mirabilem
Quam tres mures?

3. Pluvia, pluvia, desine.
Veni huc alio die!

4. Ba-la ovis, est lanitum tibi?
Sic vir, sic vir, sunt tres sacci mihi.
Primum patrono, alterum matronae,
Tertium repono, puerulo villae.
Ba-la ovis, est lanitum tibi?
Sic vir, sic vir, sunt tres sacci mihi.

Clicking here is cheating.

Comments

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

The only one I can't figure out is #3. I know a few root words that confirm structures and some other words. :-)

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

Nevermind, I figured it out. Ah, the effects of Spanish...and the song I'm listening to right now!! I would say the title, but its main phrase is "Too much ____ over paradise" ("______" indicates the operative word).

[conuly]

Y'know, I thought you'd said CAN figure out. Sorry.

[conuly]

Yes, well, some of these are loose translations. But three... what do you guess? I can delete/screen your comment later, after all.

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

Rain rain go away (and "Too Much Rain" over paradise was the song I was listening to when I was trying to figure it out)

I'm enjoying the site now way too much. I'm guessing at them all, without looking until I can no longer stand it.

[conuly]

*grins* They don't have VERY many songs. And some of them, the translations aren't that great. *shrugs* I speak from the lofty height of TWO WHOLE YEARS of study. Naturally, I'm practically fluent :) I won't bother screening, though you're right. I'm just lazy.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

Number three is Rain, Rain, Go Away. Number four is Baa Baa Black Sheep. Number two might be Three Blind Mice. Number one is Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

[conuly]

Yeah, I don't like #2. They run blindly? Maybe, but it's not the original at all.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
Three Blind Mice.
Rain Rain Go Away.
Baa Baa Black Sheep.

[takaal.livejournal.com]

Okay, you asked for it:

O Sibile! Si ergo;
fortibus es in ero.
O Nobile! Dem is trux;
sivat sinem
causen dux.

(Latin geek jokes - yay!)

[conuly]

Sibile, de ergo
Fortibus es in ero
Gnosis mare, debe trux!
Vatis enim? Causan dux!

It morphs.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

(No, I didn't click here.)

1 is Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star; 2 is Three Blind Mice; 3 is Rain, Rain, Go Away; and I don't know number four. (It may just be a nursery rhyme I'm unfamiliar with--you'd be amazed at the regional variations. For instance, I never heard the Tommyknockers rhyme until I read of it in the eponymous King novel.)

[conuly]

Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full.
One for my master, one for my dame,
One for the little boy that lives down the lane.

[sailoreagle.livejournal.com]

As usual, by the time I got to posting a comment, everything had already been guessed. Bah!

There's a point to this comment though. I was in a bookstore carrying books in various languages today, and I saw the first Harry Potter book translated into Latin (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1582348251/qid=1087085764/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-3386690-6562336?v=glance&s=books). Made me think of you for some reason. :) (And I was tempted to buy it, I looked through it and it seemed fun, but I didn't have enough money. Bah!)

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

The only one I can't figure out is #3. I know a few root words that confirm structures and some other words. :-)

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

Nevermind, I figured it out. Ah, the effects of Spanish...and the song I'm listening to right now!! I would say the title, but its main phrase is "Too much ____ over paradise" ("______" indicates the operative word).

[conuly]

Y'know, I thought you'd said CAN figure out. Sorry.

[conuly]

Yes, well, some of these are loose translations. But three... what do you guess? I can delete/screen your comment later, after all.

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

Rain rain go away (and "Too Much Rain" over paradise was the song I was listening to when I was trying to figure it out)

I'm enjoying the site now way too much. I'm guessing at them all, without looking until I can no longer stand it.

[conuly]

*grins* They don't have VERY many songs. And some of them, the translations aren't that great. *shrugs* I speak from the lofty height of TWO WHOLE YEARS of study. Naturally, I'm practically fluent :) I won't bother screening, though you're right. I'm just lazy.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

Number three is Rain, Rain, Go Away. Number four is Baa Baa Black Sheep. Number two might be Three Blind Mice. Number one is Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

[conuly]

Yeah, I don't like #2. They run blindly? Maybe, but it's not the original at all.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
Three Blind Mice.
Rain Rain Go Away.
Baa Baa Black Sheep.

[takaal.livejournal.com]

Okay, you asked for it:

O Sibile! Si ergo;
fortibus es in ero.
O Nobile! Dem is trux;
sivat sinem
causen dux.

(Latin geek jokes - yay!)

[conuly]

Sibile, de ergo
Fortibus es in ero
Gnosis mare, debe trux!
Vatis enim? Causan dux!

It morphs.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

(No, I didn't click here.)

1 is Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star; 2 is Three Blind Mice; 3 is Rain, Rain, Go Away; and I don't know number four. (It may just be a nursery rhyme I'm unfamiliar with--you'd be amazed at the regional variations. For instance, I never heard the Tommyknockers rhyme until I read of it in the eponymous King novel.)

[conuly]

Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full.
One for my master, one for my dame,
One for the little boy that lives down the lane.

[sailoreagle.livejournal.com]

As usual, by the time I got to posting a comment, everything had already been guessed. Bah!

There's a point to this comment though. I was in a bookstore carrying books in various languages today, and I saw the first Harry Potter book translated into Latin (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1582348251/qid=1087085764/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-3386690-6562336?v=glance&s=books). Made me think of you for some reason. :) (And I was tempted to buy it, I looked through it and it seemed fun, but I didn't have enough money. Bah!)