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Wedding Grace - Any Latin Speakers Here (To Paraphrase A Dan Quayle Comment)?
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Not sure where this one should lie in the AB topics list, Arts, Society and Culture so it's here to hit the biggest chance of any one who studied Latin seriously....
I need a wee translation for a wedding next weekend at which I am the MC. There's no vicar present at the reception, so it will fall on me to bring them to order (160 pax) and kick the dinner off. So I thought about a grace....could ask my goddaughter who read Latin and Greek, but then if I could get it in place earlier, that would be great.
The proposed text.
"God bless the Bride and Groom as they will, no doubt, need it. God bless the food as we are all starving, God bless the wine as, I don't know about you, but I need a glass. God bless friendship and family."
Many thanks in advance.
I need a wee translation for a wedding next weekend at which I am the MC. There's no vicar present at the reception, so it will fall on me to bring them to order (160 pax) and kick the dinner off. So I thought about a grace....could ask my goddaughter who read Latin and Greek, but then if I could get it in place earlier, that would be great.
The proposed text.
"God bless the Bride and Groom as they will, no doubt, need it. God bless the food as we are all starving, God bless the wine as, I don't know about you, but I need a glass. God bless friendship and family."
Many thanks in advance.
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I'm a she... Thanks for the compliments, folks. I did teach a bit of Latin aeons ago, but never without a large dictionary to check, and I can't find the right one (Lewis and Short) online. Peter Pedant, I think I'd stick with Deus - that's OK in church Latin. I think you're right about the subjunctive with quia, so that would make the verbs 'sit' and esuriemus - or...
17:30 Fri 23rd May 2014
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