[MR] latin translation please

[David Chessler]

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Received: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:47:33 PM EDT
From: Dave Montuori <damont at wolfstar.com>
To: Jamie Griffin <jamieg818 at yahoo.com>Cc: The Merry Rose at Cheapside
<atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Subject: Re: [MR] latin translation please

> Scripsit Lie:
> > I am trying to find a latin translation for honor, respect and loyalty.  
> > Modern or periond will work.
> 
> Honor, Respectus, Fidelitas.
> 
> (Yeah, it doesn't sound like much of a translation, but when two of the 
> words you wanted translated were basically taken straight from Latin...)

That's the trouble with English: 60 per cent of the words in the dictionary
come from Latin (often, but not always, via French or, sometimes, Spanish). 

Of course, 60 per cent of the words we commonly use in speech come from
German, usually by way of Saxon or Gaelic or Breton or....

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