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Someone please translate that to Latin and start plastering that on office walls so people take it more seriously. It’s going to save all of our mental health i

• vlmutolo 5y ago
  It's been seven years since I've tried writing any Latin, so you should assume this is butchered. (edit: I think it's less butchered now) codex bonus a discipulo prendatur codex magnus a novo prendatur codex optimus nullus est Part of the problem is I couldn't find any good word for "code". "Codex" sounds cool but may not be the best fit here. EDIT: Forgot a word. Also, I think "prendere" is better for "understood" here than "scire", which is more like "to know". EDIT2: My friend suggested using the subjunctive for "comprehend" so that it's "may be comprehended" instead of "is comprehended". Also I got the tense wrong initially and I think that's fixed now. EDIT3: "Ablative agents" are a thing. This is a rough language. Thanks, James. EDIT4: prendar -> prendatur; aka "oops, should have used third person"
  • dijit 5y ago
    Antescriptum is probably the closest to the root of the word “pro-gram”.
    • vlmutolo 5y ago
      That's a good find, but I was unsure of whether "program" is semantically equivalent to "code" here. Plus I'm tempted to leave codex since it sounds so good.
      • rwmj 5y ago
        The Stanford law-as-code project used "codex", so I think it's good.
  • honkdaddy 5y ago
    I obviously can't speak to the accuracy of the translation, but damn, is Latin a beautiful language. :)