10 Latin Phrases You Pretend to Understand →
- 1. Caveat Emptor
(KAV-ee-OT emp-TOR): “Let the buyer beware”- 2. Persona Non Grata
(puhr-SOH-nah non GRAH-tah): “An unacceptable person”- 3. Habeas Corpus
(HAY-bee-as KOR-pus): “You have the body”- 4. Cogito Ergo Sum
(CO-gee-toe ER-go SOME): “I think, therefore I am”- 5. E Pluribus Unum
(EE PLUR-uh-buhs OOH-nuhm): “Out of many, one”- 6. Quid Pro Quo
(kwid proh KWOH): “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours”- 7. Ad Hominem
(ad HAH-mi-nem): “To attack the man”- 8. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
(ad-MA-yor-em DAY-ee GLOR-ee-um): “All for the Greater Glory of God”- 9. Memento Mori
(meh-MEN-toh MOR-ee): “Remember, you must die”- 10. Sui Generis
(SOO-ee JEN-er-is): “Of its own genus,” or “Unique and unable to classify”
“history” by anna gray & ryan wilson paulsen
Julie Heffernan, Self Portrait as Dirty Princess with Tail, 2005
Photographer: The Astral City
Locale: Milwaukee, WI (Walker’s Point)
Model: Staci
Clarence John Laughlin, House of the Past, c. 1947
Clarence John Laughlin, The Iron Shell, No. 4, 1949
It says: “When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.”
Clarence John Laughlin, The Tree of Immensity, 1973
