Re: Now I get it about Ninure Saunders

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 20:24:52 +0000 (UTC)
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"Elbert Wall" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> Midwinter wrote:
> > ama semper quisquis noces
>
> Your Latin looks garbled.
That would appear to be because you are looking at the sentence the wrong
way around.
> It reads
>
> Always love, you whoever injure.
Almost.
> I would have expected either
>
> Ama semper quisquis [te] nocet
> Always love whoever injures [you]
>
> or perhaps
>
> Ama semper quemquem [te] nocentem
> Always love whoever is injuring [you]
In fact it says "always love the one you hurt" (or, more literally, 'whoever
you hurt', which is near enough). It is a song lyric Latinized, and my
preferred alternative to the well-meaning but utterly impractical Wiccan
Rede which tells us "harm none".
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ama semper quisquis noces