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Thread: This time it IS Latin
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18th June 2013, 10:38 PM #1
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This time it IS Latin
This is my old High School Motto:
MENS CUIUSQUE EST QUISQUE.
Now since I paid no attention to Latin in classes I never actually hadI would
like to know the English translation of this.
Muit obrigado,
artme..
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18th June 2013, 11:30 PM #2
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Basically "The mind is the man" Thanks Google.
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18th June 2013, 11:42 PM #3
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Also translated as "you are what you think".
Cheers,
Jim
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19th June 2013, 08:05 AM #4
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Thanks and Jimbur!
I typed it into a translator but the translation was gobbledygook, so I tried
a second translator with equal luck.
This forum is a much better bet!!
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19th June 2013, 09:40 AM #5
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this thread brought to mind two things for me:
the last time you asked a "latin" question, i mentioned a book (derivations and histories of bird names) that was going to find its way to my bookshelf ... it did and is very interesting ... not the sort of thing for everyone but ideal for me ... i have been looking up things most days ... normally when i see something out and about and then wonder about it
the second thing is something that has interested me for many years ... my own school motto was spectumur agendo translated as i understand it as "we shall be judged by our deeds" ... that has had lifelong influence on me although i have more interpreted it as "judged by our behaviour" , feeling that no matter how good the deeds, if arrived at by bad behaviour, i would feel badly judged ... my sister had labor omnia wincit (work conquers all) and although she has worked hard, i feel it is an easier motto to live by .... you obviously weren't influenced by your school motto (unless subliminally) ... i wonder whether others were
regards david
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19th June 2013, 10:22 AM #6
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Ours was Audi Consilium which means 'listen to advice', but we were also told you didn't have to take it.
Cheers,
Jim
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19th June 2013, 07:51 PM #7
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Never knew what the motto meant as no one ever explained it and I was not particularly interested.
Mottos, particularly those in Latin are vestiges of a bygone era. When many of our high schools and higher
learning institutes were founded there were aspirations toward a classical education, in the old English tradition.
Many schools seem to have dropped these Latin Mottos in favour of a more modern approach to encouragement.
In fact I remember when Macquarie University was established it adopted a line from Chaucer as its motto:
"And Gladly teche''. ?The tut, tutting and howls of derision from the moth eaten traditionalists had to be heard to be believed.
Look, quite frankly who cares?
Would knowledge of the motto's meaning have influenced me? I doubt it.
Would I like to have learned Latin? Not as young roughneck back then but now I wish I had a better knoweldge of the language, as I have over the years,
developed a bit of an interest in etymology.
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19th June 2013, 09:40 PM #8
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Never regretted doing Latin though perhaps it was helped by my last teacher - fresh from college, keen and lovely she was.
Cheers,
Jim
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20th June 2013, 02:51 AM #9
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20th June 2013, 09:36 AM #10
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definitely an abundant motive to learn.
ps It's a sobering thought to realise that she will now be in her late seventies.Cheers,
Jim
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25th June 2013, 06:00 PM #11
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25th June 2013, 09:26 PM #12
My high school motto was " As a man thinks, so shall he be", it was in english and has proved correct 99% of the time
The person who never made a mistake never made anything
Cheers
Ray
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25th June 2013, 10:17 PM #13
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Ours was "Optima Semper"- the best always. I have always tried to do that in everything I do.
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25th June 2013, 10:22 PM #14
Si habes, malleo clavum augue omnia.
Cliff.
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25th June 2013, 10:37 PM #15
Mine was "sic transit gloria mundi"
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Gloria was sick on the train on Monday
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