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Thread: Architects, What does your bumper sticker say?

Noiro
Thu Aug 26, 2004 5:35 am
#14

Honk if you want more lots...



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Bandola
Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:57 am
#15




Sevardos wrote:




Bandola wrote:


venat, orichalcum enumerat


Go on, who is going to be the first to figure it out ? I should have put this up for the Architects motto, but I only thought of it last night....

Message Edited by Bandola on 08-26-2004 05:41 AM





I don't recognize the word venat - but orchalcum means ore/copper and enumerat means collect or to count up.


Venator means hunter so maybe that's what you meant by venat.


So ... Collector and Hunter of Ore?







Nice try, but no cigar...





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Sevardos
Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:41 am
#16




Bandola wrote:




Sevardos wrote:




Bandola wrote:


venat, orichalcum enumerat


Go on, who is going to be the first to figure it out ? I should have put this up for the Architects motto, but I only thought of it last night....

Message Edited by Bandola on 08-26-2004 05:41 AM





I don't recognize the word venat - but orchalcum means ore/copper and enumerat means collect or to count up.


Venator means hunter so maybe that's what you meant by venat.


So ... Collector and Hunter of Ore?







Nice try, but no cigar...







Well am I close?!





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Sevardos
Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:07 pm
#17




Bandola wrote:


Spot on with the ore (but I think you were probably confident with that one ), you were close with enumerat but used the wrong meaning, venat you are off the mark.

To help you a little, the ending '...at' means it is third person singular

Message Edited by Bandola on 08-26-2004 12:03 PM




Ya know, there's a reason it's a dead language!



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Crimsonsplat
Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:25 pm
#18
I've run it through every translator I could find online (which was a whopping 2, seeing as I'm at work and have to do some now and again ). Nothing even close to venat.

Confusias
Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:55 pm
#19
here's a few...


Ore, the other white meat.

All your lots, are belong to us.

Sure...I can have that done in an hour.



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CourtJester73
Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:31 pm
#20
I brake for Ore sales.



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Bandola
Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:03 pm
#21




Crimsonsplat wrote:

I've run it through every translator I could find online (which was a whopping 2, seeing as I'm at work and have to do some now and again ). Nothing even close to venat.






Ok, a little help needed then.


'venat' comes from 'venire', the first person singular is veni, as in 'veni vidi vici' - you know what that means, right ?





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Bandola
Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:04 pm
#22
btw 'veni vidi vici' is a BIG clue...




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Bandola
Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:05 pm
#23


double post

Message Edited by Bandola on 08-26-2004 11:05 PM




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Bandola
Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:01 am
#24

Spot on with the ore (but I think you were probably confident with that one ), you were close with enumerat but used the wrong meaning, venat you are off the mark.

To help you a little, the ending '...at' means it is third person singular

Message Edited by Bandola on 08-26-2004 12:03 PM




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Crimsonsplat
Fri Aug 27, 2004 6:30 am
#25
Hm... found a different translator. I think your translation may be a bit "freestyle" but possible nonetheless. I first thought "hecame to count the ore." Then I noticed another possible translation for orichalum, which led me to:


"Hecame with many (uncountable?)balls of brass." Except there's no word for balls in there. Sigh. Will look for a fourth translator later, but I don't remember enough Latin syntax and case/declension, etc.endings. Been a long time since I've had to conjugate amo, amas, amat.

Bandola
Fri Aug 27, 2004 6:59 am
#26
'he came to count the ore' is extremely close, so close in fact that I will give you it, you just have to structure the sentence correctly, if you use the same syntax as used in 'veni vidi vici' (I came I saw I conquered), then 'venat, orichalcum enumerat' becomes:

'he came, his ore he counted' (OUCH !)





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