{"id":1601,"date":"2005-03-26T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2005-03-27T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2013-06-08T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T20:24:25","slug":"the-future-of-latin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"the future of Latin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last chapter of <i>A Canticle for Leibowitz<\/i>, a priest makes a pun:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Onerem accipisne?&#8221; [Do you accept the burden?]<br \/>\n&#8220;Honorem accipio.&#8221; [I accept the honor.]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In classical Latin, <i>onus<\/i> &#8216;burden&#8217; is neuter, so the accusative is <i>onus<\/i> not <i>onerem<\/i>.  Even a dead language, it seems, changes at least a little bit during the future dark ages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 20<\/strong>: Oops, I misremembered.  The first priest&#8217;s line is <i>tibine imponemus oneri?<\/i> [Shall we impose the burden on thee?] &#8212; where &#8216;burden&#8217; is instrumental, not accusative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last chapter of A Canticle for Leibowitz, a priest makes a pun: &#8220;Onerem accipisne?&#8221; [Do you accept the burden?] &#8220;Honorem accipio.&#8221; [I accept the honor.] In classical Latin, onus &#8216;burden&#8217; is neuter, so the accusative is onus not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1601\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-prose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3192,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}