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Ok, so this is completely off topic and it has no place here, but I know at least one of the commenters here can read Latin so…

Remember, how a little over a year ago Fred told us:
The real, true Christian hegemons of Sussex County, Delaware, still don’t understand why Jews and atheists can’t just agree to pray in Jesus name like good Americans: “Debating The Lord’s Prayer: Sussex council’s public prayer heads for its first court test.”

The county has argued that the Lord’s Prayer is not an exclusively Christian prayer, and its themes are universal; thus, its public recitation by a government body is legal.

In a recent court filing, an attorney defending the county wrote: “It is as generic and universal a prayer as can be crafted, inoffensive in its non-denominational textual statements of supplication and belief, and as all-inclusive as a prayer may reasonably be.”

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Remember how I responded with my somewhat more generic and somewhat more universally crafted version of the Lord’s Prayer?  Which was hopefully funny.

Well for the longest time I was thinking about translating it into Latin but could never get around to doing it, then there was a school translation project, translate whatever you want, and when someone asked, “Could we translate something into Latin,” and got an affirmative answer I decided to use that to make myself do the translation, which I did.

So now I have the Latin version.

While I was working on it someone asked, “What compliment would you like to receive on your latest work of artistry and/or effort?” and I responded:
1 It’s comprehensible2 It’s finished (due to presented later today) [It wasn't finished, but two days it was.]3 It’s funny

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So, what’s the point of all this?  At least one person here can read Latin.  I have tried to translate a comma-splice-laden bad-grammar-having stream-of-consciousness-projecting product of the spur of the moment into Latin and would like to know if it is comprehensible.

Please, someone who can read Latin, take a look and tell me if it’s comprehensible.  For extra credit, you could also tell me if it preserves the feel of the original.

The ‘thy kingdom come’ paragraph got me because I was expecting kingdom/queendom/monarchy to precede come/go/stay, but Latin word order being what it is, you’re probably fine.

That actually weirded me out when I looked at the Latin version of the Lord’s Prayer because I’m so used to the Latin word order being Subject Object Verb and that line was:
adveniat Regnum Tuum;

I am very much not used to the verb coming at the start, but I was using the Latin version as a framework so I switched it around.

“sicut in caelo, et in terra,” also forced me to reverse sections from the original because the original was built around “on Earth as it is in Heaven,” but in the Latin the order of Earth and Heaven was opposite.

You left out ‘nonexistent’ in ‘thy will be done’.

Apparently so.  I wonder if I translated that part before I had a system worked out.  Thanks for pointing it out.

Jazz, holy shit. I think you’d have done better to figure out how to make the word sound Latin rather than figuring out what the word means in Latin

Yeah, but… actually, I have no defense.

Yeah, a lot of the feel got lost, but a lot of it got kept and the sense of the words carries over fine, mostly.

Thanks.

[Added:] Disqus ate my formatting too.

It was.

 The daughter and I read it together in English (we don’t know Latin) and were absolutely howling by the end. Awesome job on this. Certainly I won’t be reciting–errr– praying this without thinking about it anymore.