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Old 4th Aug 2006, 14:23
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tmmorris
 
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If that was copied and pasted from the RAF Intranet, then it's a shame it garbles the original 'sic itur ad astra'. I know Latin is difficult if you don't understand it, but really!

And the Latin words in question don't have several meanings, either (back to an earlier post) - it's just that their exact meaning can't be expressed by an exactly equivalent English word. That's almost always the case with translations, at least of abstract concepts.

Tim
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