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After a bit more thinking... (okay, some tell me I should stop with the thinking as it usually just gets me into MORE trouble), but here goes.
I have translated our proposed non-motto into Hebrew and shortened it to now read (obviously transliterated):
BLEE SISMAH MASRICHAH - literally, "without slogan stinking"
Maybe not as recognizable as Latin, but could be interesting, nonetheless, and would certainly be ours and only ours!
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Dear Shoshanna, I kind of like the idea of the traditional Latin.
It's being a dead language and all can confuse the uninitiated and keep the scholars busy to say nothing of what the psychiatrists would strive to deduce about people who would adopt "No motto" for a motto!
Color me old stick-in-the-mud old fashioned.
{wringing hands, hoping no umbrage taken by our beautiful rose}
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"we don't need no motto"
I think using Latin for the motto (if we have one) is a good idea, but I don't care much for using that as the motto. A motto should be a concise statement that summarizes intent. The Boy Scout motto is "Be Prepared". It's short, and says much. Saying that we don't need a motto as our motto just sounds like we wasted a lot of time trying to come up with something.
I think if we're going to have a motto, it should have to do something with what the board is really about: discussing language, literature and culture. (Maybe that could be translated into Latin.)
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I think if we're going to have a motto, it should have to do something with what the board is really about: discussing language, literature and cultureWhat say they? Let them say. (A poor attempt at a motto, I know, I just like the phrase  )
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wow>I kind of like the idea of the traditional Latin
Actually, I do, too. I was just messing around with it which gave me a chance to practice my Hebrew - which is poor at best!
Meanwhile - here's another idea:
MUTTUM NON POSSUMUS
Shoshannah
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I know it's not Latin, but I always liked the motto on the Wimsey family arms: As my whimsy takes me.
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Wiggle around in my family tree a little bit and you get the Kerr family motto: Sero sed serio Late but serious
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In reply to:
Saying that we don't need a motto as our motto just sounds like we wasted a lot of time trying to come up with something.
Making it especially appropriate, I would think.
Obiter dicta forever!
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We don't need non egemus
Can't go along with mottum, apparently it meant word, not motto. Might also be hard to code in the double negative.
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Wimsey family arms: As my whimsy takes me.
A friend of mine has last name Russell. The Russell Family motto is (no kidding) Che sera, sera.
(Humming the song she wanders away ...)
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