Part of the problem with having been one of the first Catholic bloggers is that I never got on the wave of coming up with a clever name for my blog. Come one, Bettnet.com? How pedestrian! No, in order to be a cool Catholic blog these days you need a Latin name, the longer the better.
I’ve been wracking my brain for something suitably erudite and impressive and then it hit me: “Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.”
Pretty cool, huh? I think it’s perfect. It screams profundity and insightfulness. It makes me seen erudite. Wait does it mean?
Translated…
Yup, that rolls off the tongue.
I was very impressed that the boy I had a crush on in ninth grade could say “It’s all Greek to me” in Latin…
How ‘bout “Bettnet.com?” ;^)
You want your nits picked?
Okay, it’s vidEtur.
too hard to spell – keep it simple, Dom. Reminds me of a joke a deacon friend used to tell, that he knew a little Greek when he went to seminary – but he worked in the kitchen.
That’s the tag line Steve Wozniak used to use on his emails.
By the way did you hear Steve Wozniak’s relativistic take on the China Google on TWIT?
This was the title of a site that folded. It was a literary site that went out in 2002. I think the blog title is available and it is much more appropriate:
“Veritas Odit Moras”
Truth hates delay
—Seneca
Jeff,
That’s where I heard this. And yes I did hear the relativism. It boggles the mind how such smart people can be so stupid.
It reminds me of the rumored Catholic dissenter who claimed you could pass off anything to those ignorant conservative lay people if you dressed it up with a Latin name.
Dom,
Gratias ago tibi, ridiculo perfructus sum (orthographiam tuam neglego).
fac ut valeas,
Scott
Scott,
Thanks, if I understand you correctly. (My official Latin expert, i.e. my wife, gave me a translation.)
Domenico, I always liked Bettnet. Easy to remember, easy to get to.
But if we have to talk about liturgical abuse and Boston crises, how about “Illegitimus non carborundum est”?
What could be better than Bettnet?
“sagẽna melior” = Better Net
(or something like that…)
Perhaps some anagrams of Domenico Bettinelli:
BENEDICT LIME LOTION
IMBECILE NOODLE TINT
ENTITLED BIONIC MOLE
BELITTLED ONION MICE
OBEDIENT LICIT MELON
ENTOMBED ILLICIT ONE
BLIND MIOCENE TOILET
ONETIME ELICIT BLOND
Courtesy of:
http://www.wordsmith.org/