Subject: Latin help needed!
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Posted on: 2015-06-12 21:49:00 UTC

Alright. Voyd and I are taking on a Twilight/Eragon crossover, and it's...well, it's pretty dreadful. Now, right in the middle of this completely OOC speech, one of the characters slips into Latin.

Don't ask me why Latin. I remember no indication whatsoever that the character even speaks Latin. And furthermore, I don't even speak Latin and I still know it's almost definitely bad. Why? Because it smacks of badfics that try to use Sindarin in the sense of "hannon le for le helping me make mellyn with Arwen" (okay, a tiny bit better than that, but it's got English mixed in and I'm fairly sure Latin has a feminine form that should be being used but isn't.)

So, in short: this is the sentence, followed by Google Translate's explanation and my guess of what it's meant to be. Could any Latin experts please tell me exactly how wrong the Latin is?

(Female character to other female character, breaking my brain in the process): "I hope you forgive me for what I have done to you but you will not be a vampire you shall be tutis illorum vos diligo , proeliator illi quisnam can't pugna pro themselves , angelus ut vigilo super totus."

"secure of those you love, of war for those who can not fight for themselves, an angel to watch over the whole man." says Google Translate.

I expect it's meant to be something like "protector of those you love, champion/warrior of those who cannot fight for themselves, an angel to watch over everyone." Only, obviously, the author somehow couldn't find translations for 'can't' and 'themselves'--but decided to go ahead and use the Latin anyway.

The same speaker then calls the same character 'carus unus' several times. GTranslate says that's 'dear one'; I say, that's great, but again...even ignoring the OOC, am I imagining that Latin makes a distinction between genders?

Thank you so much in advance to anyone who helps. (You, too, can contribute to DawnFire's understanding of the end of the giant speech that's breaking her brain! :D )

~DF

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