can anyone here translate a phrase into Latin?

[Deep13]

I never took it in high school.

The phrase is "If it's not on the record, it does not exist." I know things are phrased differently in Latin thann they are in English.

[Deep13]

1. .

:kick:

[Chan790]

2. Sorry, my Latin isn't that good anymore so I can't translate it.

If you think you've got a translation though, post it and I can will some fairly-high degree of accuracy read it well enough to know if it's right...or passibly-right for a HS Latin student.

[Deep13]

3. I haven't got shit.

Except for a few legal expressions, I don't know any Latin, how sentences are structured or basis verb tense.

[Chan790]

5. I meant if you got a questionable translation...

I could tell you whether it was good enough. I mean I could pull out the books and throw something together but it'd be no better than my best guess and would likely be the Latin equivalent of Engrish.

[Taverner]

4. "That doesn't say Romans go Home, it says romans are home going!"

[Deep13]

7. I thought we were the Judean People's Front.

:shrug:

[kaehele]

6. This site might help

http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=English&to=Latin

[Deep13]

8. Yeah, I looked at internet translation sites.

They either required a major download which I'm not willing to do assuming it would even work on an I-mac, or they only translated individual words. Since I know next to nothing about Latin, that really won't do it.

Thanks anyway.

[david13]

9. Babel Fish is the usual first stop for translations, and free. But

they don't deal in latin.
Black's Law Dictionary is your next possibility, which is online for $105. However, I have a print edition.
Let me try it to see how close I can come, not with translation per se, but with a phrase that has a similar meaning.
dc

[david13]

10. Well, I don't see anything, and I have no idea what else to look at.

But the concept may be faulty. The general idea is that which is not recorded, or of record, may still exist, but it is not perfected. Perfected meaning given a priority over others. Or others rights.
dc

[ChickMagic]

11. Hmm

Non notare I think is not on record. Dang, it's been awhile.

Non exstare - doesn't exist?

[nemo137]

12. Si non annale, non est?

If not (in) the annals, (negation) is?

Or maybe "Si non tabularia, non est," which has roughly the same meaning (the Romans had like 8 words for records and 3 for the act of writing things down).

Or, "Non persignit, non est," if it was not written down, it does not exist.

Hope that all helps, it's been a few years since I took Latin and I had to look some things up.

[pinto]

13. Si non scriptum, est nihil non.

I'm rusty, but this is close. "If no record, it is nothing."

Could be colloquially shortened to "Si non scriptum, nihil".

Or even "Non scriptum, nihil." which is more pointed - "No record, nothing".

[nemo137]

14. I like your's better.

::golfclap::

[liberaltrucker]

15. Try this, using different English syntax to convey the same meaning

http://www.freedict.com/onldict/lat.html

Good luck.

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