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Vladimir

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Quote from: spiccioli on August 20, 2011, 08:10:57 AM

btw. 'viribus unitis' can be (and has been) a motto (it means 'putting our forces together'). In our case it could be used by a pool

spiccioli, I am your biggest fun! Thank you for great suggestions.. 'viribus unitis' is now official motto of MMC pool.

check out http://mining.mainframe.nl/index

Other pools get lost now! Angry

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First off, I wish to thank all those who have contributed to this thread thus far. As the poll indicates, the choices are relatively close. At the moment, we're leaning towards using Vin in Numeris (trailing in the poll) for the following reasons:

Seems most accurate.
Less syllables to read.
Cleaner looking when engraved on leather.
Less tooling time, though minute.
The Google image search for "Vis in Numeris" only has a handful of results, thus will create more Bitcoin awareness down the road.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22vis+in+numeris%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=685

Please feel free to tear apart, or add to, the reasons I've just outlined.

Here's an interesting tidbit: Guess what is listed first when searching for "Vis in Numeris" on Google? http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22vis+in+numeris%22

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Quote from: bitterness on August 19, 2011, 04:13:40 PM

Note vis is a defect noum meaning not all forms do exist.

vis, f. strength

singular / plural
normative: vis / vires
genitive: - / virium
dative: - / viribus
accusative: vim* / vires
ablative: vi* / viribus
vocative: vis / vires

*will scare those emacs folks, might be a good thing Tongue

I have it a little different (while we're at it)

singular

vis
roboris
robori
vim
vis
vi

plural

vires
virĭum
virĭbus
vires
vires
virĭbus

spiccioli

btw. 'viribus unitis' can be (and has been) a motto (it means 'putting our forces together'). In our case it could be used by a pool

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Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on August 20, 2011, 04:30:13 AM

Eadem mutata resurgo

Great phrase! I was just wondering when you were going to get your butt over here to leave a comment. Thanks much, marcus_of_augustus, for adding to this.

I once wrote a report on Jacob Bernoulli in high school. Boy, I wish Wikipedia was around then. I had to settle on my grandfather's worn and outdated edition of Funk & Wagnalls. He once told me he read every book of that set cover-to-cover.

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Eadem mutata resurgo

Eadem mutata resurgo

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For those of you mining,

per numerandum nummi

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Quote from: dayfall on August 19, 2011, 04:18:58 PM

Quote from: Piper67 on August 19, 2011, 12:37:15 PM

Forto En Numeros... that's it in Esperanto, I think.

Forto En Numeroj.

Yeah, I hate the -j for plurals, too. Hey, how about an Esperanto fork! Scamanto.

Nombroj - numbers [of things]; cardinal numbers
Numeroj - numerals; ordinal numbers
Ciferoj - ciphers, figures, digits

If the emphasis is on many people, it should be nombroj. If the emphasis is on encryption, it should be ciferoj.

If... everything's in order, it should be numeroj?

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Quote from: Piper67 on August 19, 2011, 11:04:48 AM

I agree... in the true decentralised nature of bitcoin, I think we should come up with the same phrase in Esperanto!

this is actually a clever idea.....and well suited to bitcoin imo

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Quote from: epii on August 19, 2011, 01:00:46 PM

Quote from: spiccioli on August 19, 2011, 12:45:57 PM

Quote from: Vladimir on August 19, 2011, 12:41:33 PM

"damn intuition sometimes is dead wrong" said I after looking at this http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22in+numeris+vires%22

Embarrassed

but note how efficient G has became lately

Really, it's freightening...

spiccioli.

Also, I think I speak for everyone when I say, get that stick out of your ass. We'd have capitulated to your point sooner if you hadn't been so sanctimonious about it.

On the other hand, I respect that you didn't flame me back, spiccioli. Sorry for the snark.

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Quote from: Piper67 on August 19, 2011, 12:37:15 PM

Forto En Numeros... that's it in Esperanto, I think.

Forto En Numeroj.

Yeah, I hate the -j for plurals, too. Hey, how about an Esperanto fork! Scamanto.

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Note vis is a defect noum meaning not all forms do exist.

vis, f. strength

singular / plural
normative: vis / vires
genitive: - / virium
dative: - / viribus
accusative: vim* / vires
ablative: vi* / viribus
vocative: vis / vires

*will scare those emacs folks, might be a good thing Tongue

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Quote from: Vladimir on August 19, 2011, 03:31:17 PM

I am sure that if namecoin "early adopters" have to chose from these two options they would prefer yours. lol

Slow down! I'm still editing my post.

And now that somebody brought it up Wink

, what if:

Would it be called BlessedCoin?

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I am sure that if namecoin "early adopters" have to chose from these two options they would prefer yours. lol

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Quote from: Vladimir on August 19, 2011, 02:22:16 PM

Since we are on Latin here I now have a perfect motto for namecoin:

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.

In God's name, I sure the hell hope we're not rearing flashbacks in any ex-choirboy's mind if they happen to stumble upon our Latin posts. (damn! upon proofreading, this doesn't read right on so many levels)

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Since we are on Latin here I now have a perfect motto for namecoin:

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

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Quote from: spiccioli on August 19, 2011, 01:21:37 PM

btw, I did write, a couple of months ago, to RSantana maker of the coinedbits coin, since he used the same motto for his coins, telling him the same thing about vis/vires!

Damn, why didn't i buy some coinedbits coins before Angry

...... those error coins will sure be worth something somewhen!

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Quote from: AngelusWebDesign on August 19, 2011, 01:40:39 PM

I might be able to help -- what phrase are you looking for? This thread is a bit confusing, to say the least.

I took all 3 years of Latin (Latin I, II and III) in 2 years.

Strength in Numbers

And while you're at it, what is the Latin word for Bitcoin?

I just now thought of something else. My dad's real name was Bronus before it was shorten to Bruno while at Ellis Island. I'm now wondering if I'm a Latin Lugan.

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I might be able to help -- what phrase are you looking for? This thread is a bit confusing, to say the least.

I took all 3 years of Latin (Latin I, II and III) in 2 years.

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on August 19, 2011, 09:31:34 AM

I'm glad I saw this issue brought up in another thread because I currently have Martin working a new design, therefore I would appreciate clarification on this concern before I give him the go ahead and continue tooling.

I always think it's funny when I find an English idiom that has a pretty exact (and nearly literal) rendering in Chinese.

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"Think twice" also has a sister saying in Chinese except it's more like "think thrice"

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Quote from: Vladimir on August 19, 2011, 01:04:51 PM

Thank you spiccioli for bringing this up. The very least I can do now it to make sure that "vis in numeris" is on bitcoin.org.uk's logo.

And next time I go to an Uni I'll make sure that I take some Latin classes.

You're welcome.

spiccioli.

btw, I did write, a couple of months ago, to RSantana maker of the coinedbits coin, since he used the same motto for his coins, telling him the same thing about vis/vires!

This whole Lating thing is something that keeps returning and I'm starting to think that it keeps returning because it really is a beatiful motto, which clearly states something about bitcoins which so unique to them... but being "wrong" it cannot settle down like those ghosts in ancient castles

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