Sum it up
No offense, folks, but Oregon's official state motto is for the birds. It goes back to 1854, and even then it got replaced for a while with "the Union," which isn't even a sentence. The motto is "Alis volat propriis," which gets translated to "She flies with her own wings." Actually, there's no gender in it at all, and so it could be "he" or "it" doing the flying.
But let's leave the pronouns out of this, shall we? It's obviously time for a whole new saying, something more modern, maybe even meme-worthy. What should Oregon's motto be nowadays?
I see "Except Bicycles" a lot.
ReplyDeleteA reader suggests: "Not as stable as the one in Maine."
ReplyDeletetimete castorem > fear the beaver
ReplyDeleteiam dimidium civitatis > now half a state
ad mortem vectigalis > taxed to death
I love the Latin! How about "Kotek Fidem Clam Scit"?
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Deletemediocritatem consequi!
ReplyDeletePERS Ante Omnes
ReplyDeleteSEIU now and forever
ReplyDeleteOregon Uber Alles
ReplyDeletePecunia mea ad urbem et civitatem et ubique inter haec avolavit.
ReplyDeleteTerra castorum, egenorum, et vectigalium nimis oppressorum -- "Land of beavers, the homeless, and the overtaxed".
ReplyDeleteI'm going to throw in "Semper ubi sub ubi" for old times' sake.
ReplyDeleteI don’t know. I bet there are a lot in Oregon who don’t ubi sub ubi.
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