Motto to Encourage Excellence in Learning Greek
Posted: December 14th, 2011, 12:03 am
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To encourage excellence and hard work in learning Greek, I am proposing a Greek version of a family motto which started out in English, which I earlier translated into Spanish and Latin versions and used with my students when I was teaching middle school. In English it is "Do it right or do it over!".
When I was growing up, I heard this often from my maternal grandmother, Janie Cash Gustafson. Before she retired, she worked at a dry cleaner, and every day at work she saw a big sign over the main work area that had the above motto.
The Greek version I propose is: ποίει αὐτὸ ὀρθῶς ἢ ποίει αὐτὸ ἄνωθεν!
I would appreciate your feedback in getting the Greek correct; I'm aiming for an idiomatic translation.
For those who are interested, here are the Spanish and Latin versions:
Español: ¡Hazlo bien o hazlo de nuevo!
Latinē: Fac rectē aut fac dē novō!
Ἐυχαριστῶ ὑμῖν,
Δεβένιος Δουλένιος
Devenios Doulenios
To encourage excellence and hard work in learning Greek, I am proposing a Greek version of a family motto which started out in English, which I earlier translated into Spanish and Latin versions and used with my students when I was teaching middle school. In English it is "Do it right or do it over!".
When I was growing up, I heard this often from my maternal grandmother, Janie Cash Gustafson. Before she retired, she worked at a dry cleaner, and every day at work she saw a big sign over the main work area that had the above motto.
The Greek version I propose is: ποίει αὐτὸ ὀρθῶς ἢ ποίει αὐτὸ ἄνωθεν!
I would appreciate your feedback in getting the Greek correct; I'm aiming for an idiomatic translation.
For those who are interested, here are the Spanish and Latin versions:
Español: ¡Hazlo bien o hazlo de nuevo!
Latinē: Fac rectē aut fac dē novō!
Ἐυχαριστῶ ὑμῖν,
Δεβένιος Δουλένιος
Devenios Doulenios