Talk:Motto

message: hi How to distinguish a motto from a slogan? Andries
:I think, in terms of heraldry, mottoes can originate from anything. Like from puns, from sayings, from war-cries, from anything. Heraldic slogans are supposed to, at least, represent a war-cry. Other than that, i think they are exactly the same, and serve the same purpose in heraldry.--Celtus (talk) 08:52, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Motto vs. slogan

message: I have serious doubts about the neutrality of this article, how would I go about tagging it? --Damuna 21:31, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, and if you were talking about the bit about Knox, I just removed it because it was just vandalism. Confusing Manifestation 01:58, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality

message: Would it be useful to have list of mottoes showing
# Motto (say, in Latin)
# Translation (English)
# Family name
as shown, eg in Burke's and Fairbairn's Book of Crests 
... Pharrar 11:32, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry for the slow reply. Yes, good assessment. DBaK (talk) 08:25, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: [[List of mottoes]]

message: I was pondering that I might collapse the "Many institutions have mottos" passage in the lede into something like "Any entity with a coat of arms usually has a motto" (hey, I'm still working on the concept!) — then some classes of exceptions hit me.  It might be good to add a passage about what sorts of armigerous entities do and don't have a motto. 
* Yes: dynasties; governments and their branches and districts; universities ... what else?
* No: officers of church and state (as such; they are likely to have a motto in their private capacity) ... what else?
—Tamfang (talk) 06:24, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  in heraldry 

message: there is a contradiction in the Scottish heraldry and Motto articles:
:Motto: In English and Scottish heraldry mottoes are not granted with armorial bearings, and may be adopted and changed at will.
:Scottish heraldry: In Scottish heraldry mottoes are considered a component of the grant of arms and can be altered only by re-matriculating the arms. In English heraldry, while a motto is usually illustrated in the patent of arms, with very rare exceptions, it is not included in the verbal grant of armorial bearings.
Yours ever, Czar Brodie (talk) 12:52, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  motto as a grant 

message: How about the motto of the Prince of Wales: "Ich dien", (I serve) in German?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:1D00:9A80:BD99:7A66:134A:9BAF (talk) 18:37, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unusual languages  

message: The motto of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity" was obviously chosen to match the letters FBI.  Are there any other such mottoes and a name for this type of motto deliberately chosen to match an acronym?
How about a section on this type of motto?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:1D00:9A80:BD99:7A66:134A:9BAF (talk) 18:47, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Add the FBI example to the paragraph on puns; no more is needed, I reckon. —Tamfang (talk) 23:42, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Retronym" mottoes