Randoms
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 1:45PM Late lunch break. Chance to share some random gems from The Fighting Cock forum.
via ZoC
Click here for the thread.
"to dare is to do".
don't want to come across as an old-fashioned, pedantic linguistic **** but if i do i don't give a sh*t anyway.
the original spurs battle cry, in Latin, is "audere est facere". now "facere" is the root word for "faire" in French, which we all know from our o level French is translatable as "to do/to make". this demonstrates the word "facere" is imbued with a far deeper and noble meaning than simply the one-dimensional "to do".... ie. do the dishes or do the shopping.... "facere" in this context is more properly translatable as "to achieve". ie, simply the act of daring is an achievement in itself.
"to dare is to do" is such a poncy way to translate "audere est facere". the **** who did it for sh**** marketing purposes on the basis that fans are too ignorant to appreciate Latin should be shot.
i'm willing to do anyone who dares to disagree.
a far more appropriate translation of the original battle cry - something the fighting cock has managed to encapsulate in just a few short months is this:
DARING TO ACHIEVE
Via S.L.R
For the thread click here.
The thing about a***nal is their manager is bigger than their club. More important to the club than the club itself. He was able to walk into their club and mould it in his image. Couldn't have done that unless the club was a blank canvas. Now all the scum talk about their history of playing the a***nal way. They don't even seem to know their own history pre-Wenger. Boring, boring *****.
Also check out the Hollywood Spurs thread for more gold like this:
Love the shirt
Reader Comments (8)
I bumped into Benoit on the tube last Friday after work. He was on the jubilee line coming out of Canary Wharf with his model looking lady friend. Had a brief chat with him, top bloke.
Only footballer I've ever meet on the tube was Steve Sedgley....years back. Top bloke, top player. '91 was his season, so under-rated.
i used to go to a soccer school run by garry brady....erm...
Steve Sedgley used to go to my school...admittedly, I was good 9 years after him but the PE teachers regularly made sure everyone knew he was a former student....and often made some rather unfair comparisons.
Yeah, I know..it's a slow day.
To be audacious is to facilitate. Yes. Ou non?
Slow day after all, then ...
benoit needs to up his game.
I think a more accurate translation would be Daring is Achieving.
Yeah, ZoC has actually revised it to that in the thread.