From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxz!ihnp4!laidbak!tims
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: interlingual puns
Article-I.D.: laidbak.136
Posted: Wed Mar 16 00:16:09 1983
Received: Tue Mar 22 22:29:59 1983

(Not really a pun.) Italian and Latin are closely-related languages, no?
Here's a sentence that means one (prosaic) thing in Italian, and another
quite different (if slightly strange) thing in Latin:

I VITELLI DEI ROMANI SONO BELLI.

Italian: Roman calves are beautiful.
Latin:   Go, Vitellius, to the sound of the war of the Roman gods.

(Let's see...have we killed this interlingual pun business?)