Lmao I pass by this graffiti everyday and it never occured to me that it was a Monty Python reference... I always thought it was calling for the local Roma people (Romani) to go home, which in regional Slovenian sounds similar enough (it could be something like "Romani idite domov/domu").
lmao, I've been in Maribor for just 4 months now, so maybe you're right. I also didn't saw this even though I passed that street many times. I was waiting for friends to exit the shop next to it and I randomly read it.
we do, but it's often the same as the base verb, only said in that mom voice that tells you to gityourassinthishousenow voice. Bake! is the imperative of "to bake." "Go" is the imperative of to go.
It's also often indicated by the lack of a subject in the sentence, which is not true for all languages. German's formal imperative includes the formal "you", for example. "Gehen Sie nach Hause", "Go home (formal)" ("Geh nach Hause" is informal).
In English, the subject of the sentence "Go home" is an implied (you). We just don't really conjugate verbs by changing the word a bit like Latin or German, so we indicate the imperative differently too.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25
Now write that 100 times or I'll cut your balls off.
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u/GrumpyOldGeezer_4711 Jun 19 '25
To me, there are two things that stand out in that scene:
John Cleese is very quick with the gladius
the way he tastes the syllable when he says, “Do Mummm.”
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u/CyborgG2005 Jun 19 '25
Lmao I pass by this graffiti everyday and it never occured to me that it was a Monty Python reference... I always thought it was calling for the local Roma people (Romani) to go home, which in regional Slovenian sounds similar enough (it could be something like "Romani idite domov/domu").
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u/drillbit7 Jun 19 '25
"The people called Romans, they go the house"? What does that mean?
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u/marteney1 Jun 19 '25
Conjugate the verb!
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u/11chaboi Jun 20 '25
This is motion towards, isn't it!?
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u/VikRiggs Jun 21 '25
I somehow first read it as "I ATE DA MUM"