Timeline for How to translate a sentence "Spend it all now = no profits and enjoy life" into Latin properly?
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| May 4, 2020 at 18:18 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | I agree with @tony. The English impersonal "one" corresponds well to the Latin impersonal passive. It's certainly not a must to put the pronoun in, but it's no stretch either. Depending on context, you can justifiably supply pretty much any English pronoun, like "now we must drink/play". Anyway, I do like this choice of Latin phrase for this purpose, so +1! | |
| May 4, 2020 at 16:33 | comment | added | Nickimite | I don't think you can read that pronoun into the Latin. There is no neuter pronoun that can refer to both genders. I suppose my translation is not entirely direct, but putting in the pronoun feels like a stretch to me. | |
| May 4, 2020 at 16:28 | comment | added | tony | Don't forget (English) impersonal pronoun, "one". giving "now one must drink". | |
| May 4, 2020 at 15:59 | history | answered | Nickimite | CC BY-SA 4.0 |