Monday, April 25, 2005
Jon Stewart, Cardinal Arinze, and Latin grammar
The weblog sauvage noble dissects a dissection of a supposed attack ad in the Vatican, as imagined by The Daily Show:
Regarding the The Daily Show invective put in the mouth of Cardinal Arinze against Cardinal Ratzinger, Clint writes:
Here is what I understood the text to be:
Cardinal Ratzinger dicit amat magna mater ecclesia. Sed qui veritas est? Eram prognatus in Germania. Ut eram Martin Luther. Validus ecclesia est alius reformation superstes per a sausage-eating bastard? Ego Cardinal Arinze, et ego probatus is nuntius.
Roughly translated:
Cardinal Ratzinger says the great mother Church loves. But who is the truth? I was born(?) in Germany. As I am Martin Luther. The church is strong surviving the reformation by a sausage-eating bastard? I Cardinal Arinze, and I this message having been approved.
[...] Here’s what it should have said: