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Sporkful University’s Motto in Latin

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Jul 20, 2010
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This comes from Heidi in Minnesota...

I'm a relatively new listener to the show, I heard about you from TBTL, I think it was the KFC Double Down episode of Luke's podcast [on which Dan was a guest] that made me start listening to the Sporkful. I was listening to the live from New York episode of TBTL when Luke mentioned his Latin teacher listener (me) and you mentioned your motto for the forthcoming Sporkful University.  If you are interested, here is "Masticate, Ruminate, Promulgate" in Latin: Mandite, Ruminate, Promulgate.  The only thing you'd need to know about pronunciation is that Latin doesn't have silent letters, so you'd pronounce the "e" at the end of each of them, like a long "a" sound.  I know the last 2 words look the same but they have one more syllable than the English versions.  Also, grammatically, in this motto you are technically commanding everyone to do those things. I thought that was appropriate.

So you heard it here first, Sporkful fans. Our school's motto has been translated into Latin. All we need to do now is live it.


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