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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Can I Get the Padding in Mauve?

Now that it's official that I'm on board St. Blogustine, I've been given my monk's garb, and writing desk, and shown to my cell.

I had to have my head Photoshopped onto St. Augustine and come up with a personal tag line in Latin, but what to do about the tag line? Since I don't know Latin, I could either coopt a listed saying or motto or run my own concoction through an online translator.

Matt sent word back that he would run the picture I submitted even though my head is too big (which it always has been in the Real World). That's pure inspiration that describes me, and thus became my signature phrase on the front page:

"Meus Caput Capitis Est Nimius Magnus"
(My Head Is Too Big)


All human readers are invited to correct any flaws in the robo translation in the comments or by email.

Update: My friend Todd emailed me this, which I'll go ahead and accept at face value since I know nothing of this subject.

I am a beginning Latin student so take all of this with a grain of salt. Latin uses different "cases" for nouns if they are the subject of a sentence or direct object or indirect object, etc. Caput means head used a subject. Capitis is a possessive meaning of the/my head. Capitis is also second person plural meaning you take or receive. Obviously this was done on purpose to torment Latin students.

Word order in Latin is not terribly important. Latin uses different forms of the word to tell us subject and object, while English more so uses word order. That said, the most common word order is noun adjective verb. For "my head is too big," I suggest Caput meus nimius magnus est. Free advice and worth every penny.


Done. Thanks, Todd!

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