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Old 10th February 2018, 11:09 PM
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Default Pecuariam felis

I've been trying to work out MJs signature for a while...
"Pecuariam felis"

Now, I've never learned any Latin (or any foreign language actually - not important for the edumacators of my schooling days! Though I have since taught myself some very very very very very basic German and Swedish - enough to know that our sentence structure is unecessarily bulky and back to front!), so had to take an electronic age approach - I used Google Translate!

So that results in "cat herding".
That didn't make a lot of sense...

So I try a couple of (non Google) Latin translators and I get a couple of different answers, such as "animal husbandry" and "work position" - ah! Now we're getting somewhere...

A general Google search suggests "pecuaria felis" instead - "agriculture recipes", hmm... No.

Maybe individual translations will provide some insight:
"Pecuariam" - "herding", we're back to that again!
"felis" - "football", hmm this isn't getting us anywhere!!
"Felis" is "cat", or at least it should be, so why has Google given me "football"??

The best I can find is that "pecuariam" is the feminine of "pecuarius" meaning "of cattle or sheep", but it's still not getting me anywhere!

I'm reading a bit far into this for an exercise in curiosity, and I'm on the verge of signing up for a Latin course!

I want it to mean "workaholic", or "feminine carriage builder" or something, but it's looking a lot like it means "cat lady"!

So please Michaela, satisfy my curiosity!
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