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A pun in Latin! Thanks for the smile
by bdamm 9y ago
A pun in Latin! Thanks for the smile
- foobarian 9y agoFor the more thick of us, what makes that a pun? Looks like they just modified the aphorism.
- dogma1138 9y agoTo the stars through/from water, it's a play on the phrase ad astra per aspera which means to the stars through (or in the context despite) hardship. The original phrase also is fitting but since the water in this case is their hardship I think is what makes it a pun.
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- fish_fan 9y agoI'd call it a play on words, but it's not a pun—only a single meaning is possible here.
- labster 9y agoI've talked myself into thinking it's actually a pun. Ad astra per aspera is a set phrase in English, so any modification to it is punning the phrase. In this formulation, aquam still carries the original meaning of ardua, hardship. While this wouldn't be a pun to a native Latin speaker, I haven't met too many of them. I kind of wish my work had mission patches like this, though "Deployed Client X" doesn't sound so dramatic.
- whatusername 9y agoHave you looked at this? https://openbadges.org/ https://openbadges.org/
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- supahfly_remix 9y agoIt's usually "ad astra per aspera" -- to the stars through hardship rather than water.