Definitions by Ralph Hancock
black bag man
Someone just released from prison, who has been given his personal stuff in a black bin liner bag.
Shouted at me in the street in Clapham, London, when I was carrying my washing in a black bag:
Shouted at me in the street in Clapham, London, when I was carrying my washing in a black bag:
black bag man by Ralph Hancock January 12, 2008
Latish
A badly garbled form of Latin created by putting an English (or other) phrase through an English-Latin translation engine. Often seen in RPG and club mottoes. Latin is a highly inflected language, which the translator can't manage. The result is bizarre, and not unlike Japlish.
For example, put 'Save the last bullet for yourself' through the translator you get this Latish: 'Servo permaneo bovis pro vestri.'
Servo = I save
Permaneo= I last
Bovis = Of an ox -- not sure how this got in, some confusion with 'bullock'?
Pro = For
Vestri = Of yours
Worse, it isn't meaningless. In bad but real Latin it means something like 'I will remain the slave of a cow instead of you.'
For example, put 'Save the last bullet for yourself' through the translator you get this Latish: 'Servo permaneo bovis pro vestri.'
Servo = I save
Permaneo= I last
Bovis = Of an ox -- not sure how this got in, some confusion with 'bullock'?
Pro = For
Vestri = Of yours
Worse, it isn't meaningless. In bad but real Latin it means something like 'I will remain the slave of a cow instead of you.'
Latish by Ralph Hancock May 30, 2007
upton park
Moderately crazy. London. Upton Park is an Underground station on the District Line and it is *two stops short of Barking*.
upton park by Ralph Hancock May 13, 2006