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[MiuMiu]

Originally posted by Sassasas
Go the senior college!!

Do you go to Georges River?

 

[pigs_can_fly]

Sydney Boys' motto: Veritate et Virtute (Truth and Virtue) -
prefects motto: Veritate et Pudor (Truth and Humility).

strictly speaking they're actually
veritate et virtute: 'by truth and virtue'
virtus et pudor: 'truth and humility'

apologies to frigid who, being a latin student, should noe better than to mistranslate obvious ablatives
but the prefects motto is semi-excusable, though the translation is still poor

 

[Navjeet]

Well, I don't think anything could be as irrelevant to school as the Abbotsleigh motto:

Motto: Tempus celerius radio fugit
Translation: Time flies faster than a weaver's shuttle

What do weavers have to do with school???

 

[Frigid]

Originally posted by pigs_can_fly


strictly speaking they're actually
veritate et virtute: 'by truth and virtue'
virtus et pudor: 'truth and humility'

apologies to frigid who, being a latin student, should noe better than to mistranslate obvious ablatives
but the prefects motto is semi-excusable, though the translation is still poor

=p Prefects suck bro!

newais, since you so wittingly smack-me-down, i'll add another one:

"extremos pudeat rediise" - "it shames to come last"

pigs_cannot_fly. if you :apig: them

 

[mercury]

"labor omnia vincit" et "gesta non verba"

 

[um..]

"light the way"
which was ironic cos all the school captains i was friends with, from 01' to 03', have been pot heads.

 

[Frigid]

Originally posted by mercury
"labor omnia vincit" et "gesta non verba"

As a favour to Shaz, I translate:

"Labor Omnia Vincit" - "Work conquers All" (motto of Sydney Girls' High)

"Gesta non Verba" - "Actions not Words" (sums up James Ruse to the letter)

=p

 

[mei_ling03]

penrith high: "altiora peto"
translation - "i'm striving for the highest"

 

[babydoll_]

strange, everyone seems to have latin mottos except our school...
damn "sincerity, scholarship, service"..

 

[chip]

fortitudo

 

[Lazy]

Originally posted by BaByDoLL11^^
strange, everyone seems to have latin mottos except our school...
damn "sincerity, scholarship, service"..

How old is your school? Ours has been around since 1867 which is why we have a latin motto, new schools are just using english i think

 

[tammer]

i hate non-religious schools having religious mottos...

just thought id mention that

 

[Chand]

honour ante honoures.. or something similar..means honour before reward..i think..n we have a jubilee based on that..

 

[babydoll_]

Originally posted by Lazy

How old is your school? Ours has been around since 1867 which is why we have a latin motto, new schools are just using english i think

since 1960 something bla bla... gee no wonder we have an english motto...

 

[freakofcool]

Ours is something pretty shocking! Not as flashy as some with a different language... It's Forward...!

 

[~dEjA vOuX~]

My schools motto is "PERSEVERE". You can't get more boring than that

 

[freakofcool]

Originally posted by ~dEjA vOuX~
My schools motto is "PERSEVERE". You can't get more boring than that

Just as worse as our 'Forward'!!!

 

[s2ophie]

"Ad astra per aspera" - To the stars through troubled ways.

My school didn't actually want it to mean that someone stuffed it up or other.

My primary school was 'labor omnia vincent'

 

[braindrainedAsh]

I'm the same as Sophie.... yay to our school!! Well, I don't know about getting to the stars *crosses fingers* but the way has certainly been troubled at times...

Soph... our primary school has the same motto as Sydney Girl's High.... I suddenly feel elevated, sharing a motto with a posh school!!!!

 

[Procras_witfood]

Mine's

"Grow Up Into Christ."

Awwww....how sweet....

I wish I had gung-ho one.