| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
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| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
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G'day,
I am looking for a ___suitable___ motto for our engineering group. We,
in a like manner to Pooh's friend, live under the initials 'E.I.C' and
the motto should be of three words, commencing in order with E, I,
and C - naturally!
Any suggestions?
I have come up with:
Eclat Iwis Certes
being 'Brilliance of Success, Certainly, In truth.'
and all words are in my Australian English Dictionary (Macquarie).
Any advances on this idea?
'Entropy is cured' fits too, but has not the same 'ring' to it.
Even 'Ebcdic Iso Citt' has not the same level of class.
Help....
Derek
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| 926.1 | JIT081::DIAMOND | Order temporarily out of personal name | Thu Nov 14 1991 00:36 | 3 | |
Experimental Intellectual Challenge
Engulfed In Code
Exciting Interesting......... Contrary!
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| 926.2 | ei[u]c[gh] | MARVIN::KNOWLES | Caveat vendor | Thu Nov 14 1991 05:23 | 5 |
In REO, EIC stands for Engineering Information Centre. People call it
what it is - the library. But if any sign _I_ had to work under claimed
I worked in an Engineering Information Centre, I'd take it down.
b
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| 926.3 | Everything Is Copacetic | XANADU::RECKARD | Jon Reckard, 381-0878, ZKO3-2/T63 | Thu Nov 14 1991 06:02 | 0 |
| 926.4 | I *think* this is Latin | SHALOT::ANDERSON | Prandeamus, vere! | Thu Nov 14 1991 10:27 | 8 |
Well, if you don't like Enterprise Integration Center, how about a reorg-type theme: Exit idyllium certus In other words, "there go the good old days for sure." -- Cliff | |||||
| 926.5 | thanks | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Thu Nov 14 1991 17:28 | 16 |
G'day,
And errr um thanks, folks....
BTW, what would be latin for 'Engineer'... :-}
as in
Engineeruma idylleum certus
Engineering is really idyllic ....
derek
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| 926.6 | I bet it wouldn't start with an E, unfortunately... | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Are we heaving pun yet? | Fri Nov 15 1991 04:54 | 10 |
As I recall, the German word for Engineer is something like Ingenieur,
which is probably more closely phonetically related to the presumed
Latin root having its local descendant in "ingenuity" and "ingenious."
Probably a phonetic (d)evolution produced the "e" initial in our
tongue.
One certainly hopes that Ingenieur doesn't have anything to do with
ingenue, though I've certainly known some...
Just a WAG of course. :-)
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| 926.7 | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Mon Nov 18 1991 14:17 | 9 | |
G'day,
Maybe E... Ingeneur Compu... in German ?? Can any one fill in the
blanks...???
BTW the boss liked Engulfed in Code...
derek
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| 926.8 | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Mon Nov 18 1991 15:08 | 10 | |
The basenote doesn't say what kind of an engineering group,
but if "Engulfed in Code" is reasonable, then perhaps:
Engulfed, Engineering, Enveloped, effervescent, Efficient,
efficacious, effective, embroiled, engirdled, enhanced, enough,
embarrassed, entrenched, enviable, epicurean, epoleptic,
epistolary, erumpant, erudite, euphonius, evangelists, exclusively,
extemporaneous, extraordinary,
in C
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