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To: lightman
Your cell or mine? ;oP

Incidentally, I don't know Latin, but I think the tagline is a better rendition of our --- what do you want to call it --- slogan, motto, or epitaph. The grammar may still be a little dicey.

71 posted on 08/11/2012 5:56:50 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Sanguis martyrum est semen ecclesiae. - Tertullian)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

JP II cited it as follows:
Sanguinis martyrum, semen christianorum
http://www.vatican.va/jubilee_2000/magazine/documents/ju_mag_01031997_p-56_en.html

That said, infalibility doesn’t extend to grammar. The omitting the est is no problem, but the genitive plural still looks a bit dicey to me. My search also came up with alternative spellings of the genitive. I have four co-workers with better latin, so if no one resolves it, freep-mail me and I’ll ask around work.


72 posted on 08/11/2012 6:37:12 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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