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How would you translate "Nothing but the rain"?
For the first, your expression is correct. For example:
quid uides? Plautus, Menaechmi 1062
In the second, probably nihil would be more common:
est sed nulla iam ultra gens, nihil nisi fluctus ac saxa ...
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Modalities for fictitious past: could have, should have, and would have
Even if these expressions (“woulda, shoulda, coulda”) look very similar in English, it is probably helpful to look at two things separately:
Would have is a true counterfactual, and since the “would ...
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How to say "bookish" (adj.) in Latin?
I'm not sure of one that has a negative connotation built in. Scholasticus, taken from Greek σχολαστικός, might have had a similar connotation in some cases.
Per Lewis and Short:
As a term of ...
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How would you translate the infinitive "to write" as in "There will still be music left to write."?
I second Sebastian Koppehel's remark (As I also alluded in my deleted-edited answer-comment) that the text can be understood in two different - however close - ways. I also take it in the sense of ...
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How would you translate the infinitive "to write" as in "There will still be music left to write."?
In Latin, I would use the gerundive, literally "that needs to be written". In other words, there will still be potential music out there in the world that needs to be composed.
I'm not sure ...
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How would you say "unlike" as the conjunction in Latin?
One possibility is to rephrase slightly and use the verb differre. For example, you could do something like this:
Physici Christiani a medicis eo differunt quod non timent ipsis medicamentis uti quae ...
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"I am on imperial business and may not be interfered with..."
A couple of suggestions:
Use fungi instead of agere. (This you did in your revised attempt.)
Use an adjective like in English. Imperiale is better than imperii.
I think the second part works better ...
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How would you say "unlike" as the conjunction in Latin?
There is no such word. One would have to negate a normal conjunction (with a word like contra), or use a negative conjunction like nec. For example:
quod contra consuetudinem puerorum, qui nascuntur ...
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Lanius non laneo. Evolution
Diphthongization is not involved. We can identify two separate differences between "lanius" and "laneo": the use of "ni" vs. "ne" and the use of the ending &...
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If the laws of physics no longer apply in the future, god help you
A 'literal' translation could be:
si quando leges physicae valere desiverint, dominus te adiuvet.
'If ever the laws of physics will have ceased to apply (to be valid), may God help you.'
However, as ...
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If the laws of physics no longer apply in the future, god help you
I'd go for something like:
Si physicæ leges non amplius operabuntur, auxiliet te Deus
The key points here are the following:
I think physicæ could arguably also be phisicæ artis, since the laws ...
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What is a translation of "All can be given, all can be taken" to assist with a tattoo design. Thank you!
Omnia dari possunt; possunt tolli omnia.
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Reimagining the logical gates in Latin
As far as I know, the names, especially the abbreviated ones you list, are always in English whether or not the surrounding text is in English.
Technical abbreviations like this tend to be universal, ...
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What is a translation of "All can be given, all can be taken" to assist with a tattoo design. Thank you!
From Cicero, Phillipics fragments:
Cara est cuiquam salus quam aut dare aut eripere potest Antonius? ("Does anyone hold dear safety that can be given or snatched away by Antony?")
Hence, in ...
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