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Re: Writer's inspiration in Latin - can you translate it?
Subject:Re: Writer's inspiration in Latin - can you translate it? From:Bryan Sherman <bryan -at- bsherm -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 2 Jul 2004 08:24:48 -0400
VERY rusty Latin... I think you meant "tam" rather than "tan"...
"Nothing is as rough as it appears"
though this translation is as rough as it appears. :-)
In High School, the Latin club motto was Sola Bona Lingua est Mortua Lingua (the
only good language is a dead language). Sometimes dealing with all the fun
grammar usage issues, I still think back to that motto.
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From: Linda Cast [mailto:lcast -at- planview -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:19 AM
Subject: Writer's inspiration in Latin - can you translate it?
An estate sale for George Christian, former press secretary to President Lyndon
Johnson, provided me a beautifully hand-calligraphied desk sign in Latin. Mr.
Christian was also a writer, and it would be fun to know the meaning of a
phrase that so inspired him. I checked online translation functions and
dictionaries, but it's difficult and I can only find a few words.
Anyone out there who can translate? Are some of the words feminine gendered?
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