{"id":504,"date":"2002-08-03T01:12:37","date_gmt":"2002-08-03T09:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=504"},"modified":"2013-08-22T20:39:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T04:39:08","slug":"pseudo-erudition-only-annoys-us-true-erudites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"pseudo erudition only annoys us true erudites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"79768091\"><\/a> A comment to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vodkapundit.com\/archives\/002294.php\">Vodkapundit<\/a> says &#8220;Lileks .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. must be the only writer in America to know and use the plural <i>hiatii.<\/i>&#8221;  Lileks is of course free to invent words if he likes, in which case he&#8217;s naturally the only one to know them; but in Latin, there is <b>no<\/b> word in which singular <i>-us<\/i> corresponds to plural <i>-ii<\/i>.  <i>hiatus<\/i> is a u-stem abstract, and its plural is <i>hiat\u016bs<\/i> (with a long <i>u<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>And by the way, the plural of <i>Elvis<\/i> is <i>Elvides<\/i>.  I have spoken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comment to Vodkapundit says &#8220;Lileks .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. must be the only writer in America to know and use the plural hiatii.&#8221; Lileks is of course free to invent words if he likes, in which case he&#8217;s naturally the only one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=504\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}