S16E3 “The Gang Gets Cursed”
You don’t know your Latin anymore?
Dominus est spiritus sanctus?
He said something about an an anus, I know that. - Mac
Mac. Stop talking to the children about their buttholes. It’s not appropriate.
I know literally nothing about Latin. What is the difference between those? My translator app translates them both to the same English phrase. And I have no idea which is the more correct/proper Latin phrase, but rewatching that clip a bunch more times, it definitely sounds like Cricket is saying “dominus espritu sanctum”.
“dominus est spiritus sanctus” means “the lord is the holy ghost”. “espritu” does not exist as a word in Latin and “dominus sanctum” doesn’t make sense as the former is nominative and the latter accusative. I’m intrigued by the intended phrase though, because usually you’d say “In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti” to say “in the name of the father, the son, and the holy ghost”. Maybe that was what they were going for?
That also makes me wonder if it was intended for Cricket to be mistranslating this phrase because he fakes his Latin, or if the Sunny writers were actually the ones who were confused when writing this dialogue. Or I guess it could have been properly translated when written into the script but Hornsby just mispronounced the line.
I know literally nothing about Latin
Honestly learning that Greek/Latin roots and prefixes is super easy and will make people assume you’re really smart. It’s 100% something Dennis would do
Like, in a lot of different fields, there’s all these “complicated” terms that you need a degree to understand…
99% of the time whoever named it just crammed some Greek/Latin together.
Like, “Dominus” meaning “lord” makes when you think about all the Dom words
“Est” is is just “is”
“Spiritus” obviously talking about spirits
And “sanctum” like “sanctimonious” references something that’s holy.
Seriously though, it’s always been weird to me that’s not a normal part of learning English and most other languages. Latin/Greek is what most European languages are built on, if you learn like 1-200 roots and prefixes from both, you’ll be able to understand a shit ton of any European language. Because they’re mostly covering the stuff that’s hard to understand without language.