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Help translating into Latin of "Off-shore rules, rule"

 
 
Reply Tue 15 Mar, 2005 01:20 pm
Could some help me translate "off-shore rules, rule" which is new motto for a sailing club. Thank you 03/14/05
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George
 
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Reply Tue 15 Mar, 2005 01:53 pm
What does it mean in English?
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cookstep
 
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Reply Tue 15 Mar, 2005 02:10 pm
Good question, George. Off-shore rules in sailing parlance has the somewhat provocative connotation of there being no rules at all - as distinguished from the very extensive and detailed rules of the road used in sailboat racing closer to shore. So, one might say that the motto in English is a bit of a play on words, has a certain maritime flair, is somewhat irreverent and is meant to be humorous.
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George
 
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Reply Tue 15 Mar, 2005 02:42 pm
The best I can come up with is:

De navigatione a litore regulae regnant.

Literally "The rules concerning sailing away from shore rule."
Just doesn't have the same snap, I know.
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cookstep
 
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Reply Tue 15 Mar, 2005 03:00 pm
George....many thanks...an old Latin teacher friend has come up with LEGES EXTRA LITOREM REGNANT or something like "laws outside of land, rule." What do you think of that...?
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George
 
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Reply Tue 15 Mar, 2005 03:18 pm
I like extra litorem, but I would use regulae instead of leges because it plays well off of regnant.
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cookstep
 
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Reply Wed 16 Mar, 2005 10:09 am
George...so it would be regulae extra Litorem regnant ....? It does have a better ring overall.....
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