Per Ardua ad Astra!* and other Latin favourites.
Posted: Monday, 19 March 2007 |
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Aboot the only Latin I can mind (I got taught it at Brora High School but cannae mind much o` it sadly) is Vae Victus which lodged in me brain frae one o` me sons PS2 games and means "suffering to the conquered"...no really an appropriate phrase tae be using in me blog anytime soon I think!
Hermit from Sanday
Thank goodness for that explanation! And quite a good motto to have, too. Sorry TBF has withdrawn from the blogging though. Semper vigilans...
Jill from EK
Too bad TBF decided that life would be easier without the cranky participants of this merry go round, each one more disrespectful of conventions than the other, going on wild tangents at whim. Life is easier elsewhere perhaps, but is it as entertaining, quaint, educational, and even beautiful (some of the photos, Island Thread products, etc.) as well as strangely communal (not without friction, of course). Oh well, TBF could have done us all some good, and in Latin too. I must admit to an ingrained preference for blessings given in Latin accompanied by expensive incense and a sprinkling of water. I'd take the blessings in the Tyndale or King James version as well: it is the modern watered down (American) English that gets my goat (yours too, Hermit?!).
mjc from NM,USA
No, afraid not mjc. I`m heathen through and through. Never read a bible in my life nor likely to. ;)
Hermit from Sanday
Hermit, you could use the Bible as literature. All genres are covered in one/two volumes!!
mjc from NM,USA
Och no, nae appeal at a` tae me! Gie me a guid history book or something archaeological, or for pleasure a good sci fi, or fantasy, but nothing which hammers oot a foreign religion to me!
Hermit from Sanday
Anyone says s/he is "a heathen through and through." without making a song and dance about it, is a pal of mine (particularly if the soup made with fresh hock/trotters is on the table) I get worried (I am afeared?) by those who claim they are Christians, or Catholics, inside out and head to toes. If they tell me they are born again - and yet are neither Buddhists nor Hindu but self proclaimed Christians, I either run for the hills (Ward Hill here or there or wherever) or do the disappearing "I'm not here" act (for two way discourse is rarely possible).
mjc from NM,USA
"but nothing which hammers oot a foreign religion to me!" - Hermit. # Say, Hermit, righto: I would not think that, after Cromwell's "hammering of the Scots" - there would be much love lost in your neck of peat country for any further such treatment. # Talking about hammers: Barebraes and her lesser (eh?!) half both wield a mean hammer. And it's not all show, if the latest photo instalment from Ward Hill is anything to go by.
mjc from NM,USA
Best Latin joke I ever heard was: "Dico, dico, dico, Canis meum nasem non habet. Quod? Nasem non habet? In quod mondo scentium? Horribilum!!!!" (I say, I say, I say, my dog has no nose. What? o nose? How does he smell? Horrible!)
James from Mull
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