The only problem is Mumma took a couple semesters of Latin back in high school and would be hard pressed to conjugate a verb beyond amo, amas, amat. We must rely on the next best thing…the internet. There are a number of purported converters of English to Latin but if you’ve ever tried running the result back through a Latin to English converter you find the resulting motto isn’t anything like your original phrase. It’s a sad game of telephone technology style.
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| Here is Bettina's coat of arms with the current motto. |
The next best thing was to find smarter people than you who have already posted Latin mottos online and appropriate one for yourself. We couldn’t find “I eat, therefore I am” or “I came, I saw, I took a nap” translated into Latin but we did find some that seemed like they would be suitable. We just ask your help in narrowing it down to one! Let us know which one gets your vote. Below are the contenders:
Ecce Potestas Casei (Behold the power of cheese)
Canis Meus Id Comedit (My dog ate it)
Frena Proferis Teneo (I brake for animals)
Radix Lecti (Couch potato – for the record we tried this one in the translator and came up with something so far foreign to the words couch or potato that we were almost forced to give up our quest for a motto.)
Hic Sunt Dracones (Here be dragons) or maybe Hic Sunt Canem
Ex Igne Pulchritudo (From fire, beauty)
Incitatus (Speed Demon)
Now mind you, I rely on the kindness of internet strangers. It is possible that our new motto may actually say something like “eat at Joe’s.” We’ll never know. But thanks to public school systems that are sadly lacking in the classical languages, most of you won’t know either.
PS: If there are any of you out there who remember your Latin grammar, we would love to see the following:
We ate, we pooped, mum scooped
I came, I saw, I rescued
Our enemies we lick to death (or alternately 'Our enemies we lean on until they fall over')
Always hungry
