Latin dialogue from Tombstone

The saloon scene from Tombstone in which Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo challenge each other in schoolboy phrasebook Latin.

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• Tombstone
• wyatt
• earp
• doc
• holliday
• johnny
• ringo
• bill
• brocious
• latin

[Yair0De0La7Vega]

Interpretation Doc: im sure of it, i hate him. Wyatt: Hes drunk. Doc: in wine you find truth. (not expecting a response, he reiterates the insult that he hates him.) Ringo; I can see you do what you do best, (insulting him for being a drunk.) but you better check yourself before you wreck yourself cause my colt .45 is bad for your health. Doc: am I to believe in santi clause, the easter bunny, the talking walnut, and that dr. pepper has a new satisfying diet drink. not me

[Yair0De0La7Vega]

Doc then replies In pace requiescat.

May the real fool rest in peace.

ps. obviously we all know

which way the Huckleberry rolled

[Yair0De0La7Vega]

Doc; (tell it to someone who is naive enough to care.)

Ringo: Inexperience is the teacher of fools.(if you tell

a wise person that fire is hot, he heeds the advice.

the fool gets burnt. In life when you make a mistake,

you pay with wealth, life, or liberty.)

(This is the greatest insult by ringo. calling Doc a

foolish child who is going to be taught a lesson by

his master, in this case ringos colt.)

[Yair0De0La7Vega]

@HumaneAnon

anyway this is my interpretation that goes beyond

any idiocracy, that could ever spew out of that

scarecrow head of yours, because it catches

the tone and the diction of the dialogue,

with an addendum my sense of humor.

[Yair0De0La7Vega]

look moron to make a literal

translation is child's play.

and incredibly stupid because

the meaning of phrases are lost

in translation even from the romantic

languages. (like english to spanish)

in this case we are dealing with a dead

language were the meaning of this dialogue

goes beyond a simple literal translation.

[HumaneAnon]

@Yair0De0La7Vega "In pace requiescat"=May the real fool rest in peace

Wrong. The point in translation is to translate feeling while keeping honest to usage. [requiescat] ~near future "rest / [In pace] ~in peace "almost literally. There's no need to layer on poetics. "real fool" isn't used literally, nor is it implied. Leave the translating to the big kids ^_^

[indomitusEvehementis]

Johnny Ringo: Eventus Stultorum Magister.

[Events are the teachers of fools. - Meaning - "Fools have to learn by experience."]

Doc Holliday: In Pace Requiescat.

[Rest in peace - Meaning - "Your death will be your final lesson!"]