[Chat] Strong deeds, gentle words

Emil Volcheck volcheck at acm.org
Tue May 6 00:19:10 EDT 2008


Hello, neighbors,

I never realized that Maryland's State Motto is in Italian
and can be translated as "strong deeds, gentle words" or
"manly deeds, womanly words."

Wikipedia has a nice entry that includes a discussion of
disagreements over sexist translations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatti_maschii,_parole_femine

I was in for jury duty last week, and it occurred to me
that I could Google the Italian words inscribed in the
wall of the courtroom.

--Emil




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