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oliveview
03-30-2008, 07:25 PM
My boys want t-shirts made up for the next chess season. I asked them what they wanted to name their team and they said "Checkmate in Latin". I've been doing this great job on marketing and getting the boys excited about learning latin. They are so excited to start Latin they can hardly stand themselves!!

Plaid Dad
03-30-2008, 07:30 PM
According to John Traupman's Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency, it's cave regi! (There are macrons - long marks - over the last three vowels.) :)

oliveview
05-02-2008, 07:54 AM
Drew,

I am so sorry. I jsut realized that I never said thank you for your response.

Sherri

Plaid Dad
05-02-2008, 05:08 PM
No problem. Did you ever get the shirts made? I'd love to see how they turned out. :)

oliveview
05-04-2008, 08:32 PM
We haven't made them yet, but I will certainly show them to you when we do! Thanks so much for your help!
Sherri