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From: Gordon Snapp <grsnapp_at_charter.net>
subject: [Paddlewise] Age Quod Agis?
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 20:53:57 -0500
I don't speak Latin.  What does this mean?





Thanks!


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From: Steve Holtzman <sh_at_actglobal.net>
subject: RE: [Paddlewise] Age Quod Agis?
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 21:11:47 -0700
On Behalf Of Gordon Snapp
> I don't speak Latin.  What does this mean?
> 
 My Latin translator program comes up with "Drive with respect to which
you drive"

There must be a better translation out there than that.

Steve Holtzman


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From: PeterO <rebyl_kayak_at_iprimus.com.au>
subject: RE: [Paddlewise] Age Quod Agis?
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 20:25:03 +1000
Jennfer wrote
>Do you mean to imply that someone would 
>CHOOSE to have a dry anything??  ;-)
-- 
Age Quod Agis

Gordon wrote
> I don't speak Latin.  What does this mean?

Steve wrote
>There must be a better translation out there than that.

G'day
	* Do what you are doing
	* Live the moment
	* Concentrate
	* KAPOW - SPLOSH - Where'd that wave come from!!!!!!!

All the best, PeterO


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From: Jennifer Pivovar <kayak_at_headwinds.org>
subject: RE: [Paddlewise] Age Quod Agis?
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 09:22:46 -0400
Quoting PeterO <rebyl_kayak_at_iprimus.com.au>:
 
> Age Quod Agis
> 
> Gordon wrote
> > I don't speak Latin.  What does this mean?
>
> G'day
> 	* Do what you are doing
> 	* Live the moment
> 	* Concentrate
> 	* KAPOW - SPLOSH - Where'd that wave come from!!!!!!!

Peter -

I generally think of your translation #1 when I invoke this bit of 
latin, but I have to say your translation #4 has changed this for me 
forever!!!  Best one I've heard - Thanks
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From: PeterO <rebyl_kayak_at_iprimus.com.au>
subject: RE: [Paddlewise] Age Quod Agis?
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 21:03:00 +1000
Jennifer wrote: -
> I have to say your translation #4 has changed
> this for me forever!!!

G'Day Jennifer and Paddlewise,

Your response was kinder than my school teachers would have allowed. it
moved me to look up an old book called Latin For All Occasions by Henry
Beard. (ISBN 0 00 255383 X). Could it possibly have anything for kayakers -
I'll let you be the judge:-

	In rivo fimi sine remo sum
	I'm up the creek without a paddle

	Quid est illud in aqua?
	Whats that in the water?

	Pistrix! Pistrix!
	Shark! Shark!

	Quid fiat si hoc rudentum vellam?
	What happens if I pull this rope?

	Debetne multum aquae subter esse!
	Is there supposed to be a lot of water down here!

	Subito minime valeo
	All of a sudden I'm not feeling so good

	Neutiquam erro
	I am not lost

	Nunc, vero inter saxum et locum durum sum
	Now I really am between a rock and a hard place

	Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris
	If Caesar were alive you'ld be chained to an oar

	Culices pessimi hac nocte sunt
	The mossies are murder to night

	Animadvertistine ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri
	Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face

	Mea dilectissima! Farrago thunni
	My favourite! Tuna noodle casserole

	Balaenae nobis conservandae sunt
	Save the wales

The sections on useful curses and gastronomical Latin are particularly good!

All the best, PeterO

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From: Aaron Cunningham <acunning_at_seanet.com>
subject: RE: [Paddlewise] Age Quod Agis?
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 21:20:33 -0700
According to what I could find online it means:

- focus on what you're doing

- Do what you are doing; attend to your business.


Aaron

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From: Gordon Snapp
Subject: [Paddlewise] Age Quod Agis?


I don't speak Latin.  What does this mean?
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