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Forum Name: Our Witches at War/Gallian Gothic
Topic ID: 87
Message ID: 33
#33, RE: GG Book 2 Act II: La Grande Rencontre
Posted by Astynax on Sep-27-20 at 00:52 AM
In response to message #29
>When I was a kid, I knew a guy who had a sailboat called "Mañana" ;-)
>
>Lessee...."sort" as a verb is going to be summat like 'ordino' (
>implies - as one might expect - ordering, arranging ) or 'dispono' (
>which is more 'regulate' )
>
>Given the connotation, we'll go with 'ordino' as the verb, but since
>this is future tense ( "eventually" ) we'll need to match that - it's
>an -are verb so that'll be... ordinavit? Yeah, that seems right.
>
>Now you -could- just leave it as that word - "ordinavit" does carry "I
>will be sorting it" as a meaning - but that doesn't quite get the kind
>of "mañana" connotation we're after. Fortunately, 'tamen' is a direct
>translation of 'eventually' in approximately that sense.
>
>Hence:
>
>"Tamen Ordinavit"
>
>Edit: though if you want to make sure 'it' is emphasized, you could go
>with "tamen hoc ordinavit" with 'hoc' taking the accusative case as
>the direct object, emphasizing 'it' as an indefinite thing that will
>be sorted. It also scans a little better.
>
>Double-edit:
>
>"tah men" "hock" "ore DEE nah vit" is how you pronounce that ( for
>values of 'pronounce' that are ecclesiastic, rather than classical,
>latin ( and isn't -that- a whole rabbithole ) )

I had wanted to toss out the Latin for that motto just because that saying as a motto amuses me, but Google kept spitting out garbage and my own Latin classes are too many decades in my past, so I'm glad someone had it covered.

Funny thing I do recall from high school Latin, the teacher insisted on classical pronunciation, despite the class being in a Catholic school where you'd expect ecclesiastic to rule the day. That always struck me as odd.


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