"Don't Let the B###'s Win"

[pensrfun]

Please provide the Latin translation for "Don't let the ******** get you down"

[M_anon343143]

Non illegitimi carborundum Don't let the b******* grind you down NB. As i REMEMBER it, but am reasonably confident

[Clanad]

I think more correctly "Non illigitimus carborundum"...

[Quizmonster]

It's 'illegitimi', since it refers to these people in the plural. Also, I've generally heard its opening as 'Nil' rather than 'Non'.

[medico]

Commonly said "Non illigitimi carborunda" is not a latin saying as such. I understand that it dates from schoolboy "faux" latin from WW1.

[jfliv]

Nolite ********* carborundum from Margeret Atwood's "A Handmaid's Tale"... Don't know where Atwood got it from.