Talk:Romani ite domum

message: From WP:RfD:
* Romani ite domum → Monty Python's Life of Brian - "Romani ite domum" is a Latin phrase that occurs in a hilarious sketch in the film. That said, I really don't think people would look it up. Well, I did, but that's because I'm a strange guy who likes to look up weird stuff. (If an article about this were to be created, it should probably be created at Romanes eunt domus instead, which is the incorrect Latin that Brian had written before the centurion corrected his grammar.) - furrykef (Talk at me) 08:00, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Romani ite domum]] 

message: Students of Latin often note that domi is the locative of domus in literary classical Latin. The (allative) case construction used in the final formulation is accusative of motion towards
* it could also be noted that "ite domi" is a litteral translation of "go home", and could also be interpreted as simply "go to the house" . A more correct phrase to convey the meaning of "Romans go home!" would be "Romani, ad vestras domus abite!". Though it would probably kill the joke.Purgebandit (talk) 21:42, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Some might claim that strictly literally, "ite domi" would mean "go at the home" (i.e. do your going there, rather than going to there) -- see Locative case... AnonMoos (talk) 20:50, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Case of domus 

message: are crossing my mind just now, indeed. Tuvalkin (talk) 00:40, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vocative 

message: Latin Wikipedia points out that the more natural phrasing would be Romani auferte vos domum, even if Romani ite domum is technically correct. Is there a source for this? Should this be mentioned here? שונרא (talk) 00:13, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It might be how you would say it if you were an actual Roman, but the point is that Brian was in a Jewish resistance cell and using a slogan derived anachronistically from 20th century protests in a particular phrasing.  In Latin Wikipedia it might make sense to distinguish between what was written for the film, and what a native Latin speaker might have written instead.  In English Wikipedia it seems like an unnecessary detail that would require too much effort to explain, given that it's neither part of the grammar actually discussed in the film, nor part of works of literature describing the scene.  P Aculeius (talk) 00:43, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unnatural phrasing 

message: It is strange that there is nothing said about this obvious context. There is not even a "Yankee go home!" page on Wikipedia. It only forwards to Anti-Americanism. I'll leave the rest to Billy Wilder:
"When the Southern belle is confronted about her foolishness in the matter of helping him blow up anti-American "Yankee Go Home" balloons (how the couple met) she simply replies with, "Why, that ain't anti-American, it's anti-Yankee... And where I come from, everybody's against the Yankees ...""
2A01:C23:B96D:1D00:1CBB:CB92:B2C6:A24A (talk) 19:32, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: That certainly comes to mind, and it could have been omitted because to the article's original authors, it seemed too obvious to require explation.  However, I'm not aware of any published source that makes the connection, and without even a proper history of the phrase, I can't feel certain that similar phrases weren't used of other peoples.  That would make it hard to connect the phrase to this article without a reliable source.  If you can find a published source that does so, it might be worth including here.  P Aculeius (talk) 23:52, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Play on "Yankee go home!" / "Ami go home!"