Now that we've got our spiffy new forum badges I note that we seem to have a new "motto" space in our profiles. (Or maybe it's not new, and I just noticed it after seeing that there was a badge for creating a profile and going back to spruce mine up after months of neglect.) I know that we have a big thread on avatars and their meanings, but I haven't seen one for mottos yet; so I thought I'd throw this open for folks interested in sharing mottos and what they mean. At the very least, it'll point out that mottos are supported to those like me who didn't know...
To get the ball rolling, yesterday I whipped up a quick motto. It's a play on the Latin line of poetry, "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," which translates to "How sweet and proper it is to die for one's country." The line was used in the First World War to drive recruitment, and was savagely mocked in post-war poetry (in one title especially, though the title and poet escape me dammit) and in All Quiet on the Western Front.
My version (if I translated it right... me no speakie da Latin, so I trusted the declension to a robo-translator) changes this to, "Dulce et decorum est pro patria ludo." ("How sweet and proper it is to game for one's country.") It'd be nice if it was as acceptable in the public's view to play as it is to bleed.
-- Steve
To get the ball rolling, yesterday I whipped up a quick motto. It's a play on the Latin line of poetry, "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," which translates to "How sweet and proper it is to die for one's country." The line was used in the First World War to drive recruitment, and was savagely mocked in post-war poetry (in one title especially, though the title and poet escape me dammit) and in All Quiet on the Western Front.
My version (if I translated it right... me no speakie da Latin, so I trusted the declension to a robo-translator) changes this to, "Dulce et decorum est pro patria ludo." ("How sweet and proper it is to game for one's country.") It'd be nice if it was as acceptable in the public's view to play as it is to bleed.
-- Steve
