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by IAmBroom 297 days ago
So you are suggesting the motto actually should translate, "Protect the user, did, and the truth"?
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Watch over the user, the given and the truth.
But I prefer your version of the motto.
"do," pronounced with a long o, means "I give" in Latin. 'data' is the perfect-tense, passive participle -- "given" -- in the neuter gender, with plural number: literally "things given," but idiomatically "gifts."