Pig Latin

[benreilly97@lemmy.world]

to the stars (through suffering? New one for me)

"Through adversity" is the translation I've heard.

[greenappletree@lemmy.world]

Suffering, adversity, difficulty, hardship, seem to be what different institutions commonly translate it to.

Fun fact, it's also the motto of Kansas, where the artist lives.

[hogmomma@lemmy.world]

Was this an animated gif that had no animation?

[ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Might have gotten more publicity as it was used in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as a Starfleet motto. Boimler in Lower Decks also has a poster with the motto on it.

[hammocks4all@lemmy.ml]

Yeah! Super clever and fresh.

[brsrklf@jlai.lu]

More literally, memento mori is "remember you will die". There was a Roman ceremony called the Triumph when a successful war commander would parade on a chariot through Rome.

Allegedly, someone would follow them through the day telling them "memento mori" to... keep them humble, I guess? as they were basically showing off to everyone in a god costume.

[ryedaft@sh.itjust.works]

Boost always renders gif as an animation whether it's animated or not. Which client do you use?

[yimby@lemmy.ca]

I know it from the tribute plaque to the Apollo 1 astronauts who sadly passed in a tragic fire during ground tests.

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

Where I live it's translated as Through the thorns to the stars.

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

Don't say you've never heard of Per aspera ad astra?

[mosiacmango@lemm.ee]

Didn't ring any bells off hand like the others, nope.

Had to look it up.

[tal@lemmy.today]

There's some WP page I remember with common Latin phrases.

kagis

Okay, it's apparently now twenty WP pages, though there is one mega-page with all of them:

List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[fuglyduck@lemmy.world]

For the record, Deus ex Machina is more a specific literary device- literally a crane lowering a god to save the protagonist in Roman and Greek dramas.

To be fair they were more interested in telling a moral than being a good story. But the whole hanging-actor thing was meant to say they were a god and could just wave problems away. (Apparently literally.)

[etterra@discuss.online]

That's the name of an SCP, that's the name of an SCP, that's...

[kspvhmtolwvmd7y7e@lemmy.world]

they were more interested in telling a moral than being a good story

So.. Literally Netflix

[klear@lemmy.world]

Cute comic, but I'm starting to hate how people stared thinking that an insult is the same thing as an ad hominem. No. If I call you an idiot without attaching any propositions to that, it's just an insult and not a logical fallacy.

[general_effort@lemmy.world]

As the story goes, John Steinbeck was told by one of his professors that he would become an author when pigs fly,[...]

The accurate phrase is “ad astra per ALAS porci,” which means that Steinbeck in his snarky revenge was demonstrating far and wide that he was a bad student after all – and thanks to his famous but inaccurate imprint, countless people are running around with tattoos which actually say “to the stars through other pigs.”{“ad astra per alia porci”]

https://sluggoonthestreet.tumblr.com/post/188811241794/as-the-story-goes-john-steinbeck-was-told-by-one

[where_am_i@sh.itjust.works]

So many upvotes, while so many botchered translations.

[nieceandtows@lemmy.world]

That "This farmer is evel" by the pig and the "sic" by the hen gives me a sensible chuckle

[mosiacmango@lemm.ee]

Please feel free to correct any I "botchered."