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[cinefactus]

What do you think is a good term which would describe this phenomenon in Latin? Something you could use to express to a tattoo requestor that what they are asking for will be meaningless.

 

[Iohannes Aurum]

Here are some:

Ratin (though the actual Japanese word for Latin is "raten")
Dog Latin
Canis Latinicus

 

[cinefactus]

Thanks John. The Canis Latinicus is quite a funny link.

Dog Latin I think would convey the idea to the poster, although it seems to mean malformed Latin, rather than correctly translated gibberish...

I thought of Pull fourth speech (拉丁文), but no-one would know what I was talking about!

 

[Nikolaos]

Hm, linguus latinum?

 

[cinefactus]

How about a series of posts which we could post a link to:
Dog Latin
Latintertran
Laterish

 

[Bitmap]

Something you could use to express to a tattoo requestor that what they are asking for will be meaningless.

I'd just stick with the good old personal insults

 

[Decimvs]

I had a professor who would say to students reading from the Aeneid, "Come on now, that sounds like translationese."