Am I correct in assuming that outfitting said Scouts with robotic armor suits/bazookas/sundry in the hopes of keeping the peace and injuries-to-students to a minimum is perhaps not what one headmistress would be in approval of?
Oooh, ooh...let me try. Umm..."Sweet and decorous it is for a patriotic death"? As a sort of literal translation...? o_O Must be Latin, then? Looks a little like Spanish. :-)
It's Latin, and properly translated, it means 'It is sweet and proper to die for one's country'.
Where it's from is a poem by Wilfred Owen, a WWI soldier and poet writing on the reality and true costs of warfare and criticizing the rampant pro-military attitudes of the time that indeed it was dulce et decorum est pro patria moria, a common slogan among certain of the British upper class.
The apparent youthful enthusiasm of many students to go charging into something that Jean's seen kill too many people all ready, and leave others broken by the wayside, made her think of the poem.
To Jean's mind, it's like, instead of people respecting the sacrifices of veterans so that they wouldn't have to fight, they want to fight themselves because they think it's cool. (Since planning to use the Danger Room doesn't exactly smack of 'rescuing kittens and assisting the elderly'.)
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Am I correct in assuming that outfitting said Scouts with robotic armor suits/bazookas/sundry in the hopes of keeping the peace and injuries-to-students to a minimum is perhaps not what one headmistress would be in approval of?
Thank you,
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Oooh, ooh...let me try. Umm..."Sweet and decorous it is for a patriotic death"? As a sort of literal translation...? o_O Must be Latin, then? Looks a little like Spanish. :-)
What is that from, anyway?
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Where it's from is a poem by Wilfred Owen, a WWI soldier and poet writing on the reality and true costs of warfare and criticizing the rampant pro-military attitudes of the time that indeed it was dulce et decorum est pro patria moria, a common slogan among certain of the British upper class.
The apparent youthful enthusiasm of many students to go charging into something that Jean's seen kill too many people all ready, and leave others broken by the wayside, made her think of the poem.
To Jean's mind, it's like, instead of people respecting the sacrifices of veterans so that they wouldn't have to fight, they want to fight themselves because they think it's cool. (Since planning to use the Danger Room doesn't exactly smack of 'rescuing kittens and assisting the elderly'.)
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I miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiss Sean ;_;
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