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By nallen
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#1639901
A man from the Emerald Isle
Had models of marvellous style
His airliners past
All made from die-cast
Kept Kelly from turning senile.
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MikeB wrote:
kanga wrote:This deserves the composition of a Limerick in tribute .. :)



There once was a young man called Kanga
Could converse in multiple langa'
For 3 days a week
He'd speak Latin or Greek
In the Jet Age Museum main hanga'

..


Hibernicam otiosorum
Tractabat grex aviatorum
Collationem parvularum
Aeronavicellarum
Mediis socialibus ('Forum').


.. Greek might take a little more effort .. :)
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By MikeB
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#1642563
Impressive Latin rhyming (I think!). But with no claims to being a Latin Scholar, I rely upon Google translate, which suggests as follows:

Irish idle :whistle:
Treated sheep Aviator :lol:
the contribution of young girls :shock:
Aeronavicellarum :?:
Media Social ( 'Forum').
#1642566
Google translate can evidently not cope with the juggling of word order, both needed for the rhyme and metre, and permissible because inflected Latin endings make it clear which nouns go with which adjectives. A more literal but less poetic translation would be


A crowd of idle aviators discussed an Irish collection of tiny model aircraft on social media ('Forum')


I take this as reassurance that IT will take a while to push human linguists out of a job (although I've never been employed as one) :)
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