Embrace the power of "and"

[firecat]

can be translated into Latin as
amplectere potestem "et"

Put it in your interests list!

and if anyone knows the dative genitive case of "et", let me know

Comments

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

'Et' is a conjunction and doesn't have cases. (And it would surely be the genitive you were after if it did...)

[firecat]

Yeah, but if it did, that would make it easier to translate "of 'and'" properly.

Oops, you're right about the genitive. Correction issued.

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

I think you'd have to use "the word 'and'" (=verbi 'et').

[mhw.livejournal.com]

And it's an imperative, not an infinitive, so I'd suggest

Amplecte potestem verbi 'et'.

[firecat]

Hm, when I was researching this, I thought I found that one of the imperative forms of "amplector" was "amplectere."

[catzen.livejournal.com]

My Latin (such as it was ever was) is rusty, however...

::gets out his old Latin-German/German-Latin dictionary and flips to the page::

Amplector is one of the so-called deponentia, so "amplectere" is, I believe, the correct imperative form (3rd declination).

As to whether one could use "et" as a substantive when talking about it, the word, I'm not sure. I don't recall whether such things occurred in any of my (admittedly few) readings in Latin. It does happen colloquially in at least a few modern languages, though. (English and German I can personally vouch for, if memory serves. Although, when I consider my own usage, I think I tend to prefer to stick the German for "the word" in there somewhere. :-) )

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Have done!

[dafydd.livejournal.com]

I it in my interests list the "amplectere potestem verbi 'et'" format. Does Latin distinguish between a word and a concept? If so "Embrace the power of the concept 'and'" might be better than "Embrace the power of the word 'and.'"

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

Too cool for words.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

have they (the Great and Powerful They) picked a design for the APC10 t-shirt yet?

that would be awsome. also, a bumper sticker. make my car happy!

what's "communicate, communicate, communicate" in latin.

n.
noting that it's really all greek to her.

[firecat]

Well, if They have already picked a design for the T-shirt (I don't know), a person could always open up a Cafe Press shop featuring the slogan.

I'd buy something with that slogan on it.