don’t let the bastards get you down on door is a quote from what movie?
Question by chickenxbuttz: don’t let the bastards get you down on door is a quote from what movie?
i recently just heard the quote “don’t let the bastards get you down on door” and its killing me where i heard it before. i think i heard it from some movie where it was written in latin on some door or a wall. can someone tell me what movie or music video this quote was from? thanks!
Best answer:
Answer by Severely Insane
It’s a pretty common idiom… you could have heard it a number of places
in Latin it is
Illegitimi non carborundum
EDIT- I apologize for my bastardization of the Latin language. The phrase actually is “Illegitimi non carborundum” it’s known as “mock Latin” or “dog Latin” the phrase originated in WWII.
I should have said that the first time to avoid offending any Latin scholars.
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Sorry that I can’t tell you what movie used the quotation, but, as the previous answerer said, it’s pretty well known. Unfortunately, the most “bastardly” thing about the Latin version he or she gave is the Latin itself. One correct way to say that sentence in Latin is “Noli nothis permittere te terere.” That supposedly Latin saying that you so often see really means “The unlawful ones are not a patented abrasive.”
Edit: Thanks, Severely Insane! I had wondered who mangled the language that way! WWII is very believable. Now I’ll be more tolerant. : )