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Originally Posted by 27litres
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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I had the same curiosity as you Marty but my Google searching coughed up nothing.
So I asked MJ for the answer in private so as not to embarrass myself by
1. Not knowing what it meant (I gave up Latin in secondary school like Mark did)
AND
2. Not knowing how to Google an answer correctly in the current age.
I guess that you have a few people a favour by raising this subject
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