{"id":1650,"date":"2011-05-19T09:25:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T09:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2014-03-06T10:57:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:57:23","slug":"natty-latinisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"Natty Latinisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had occasion to think fondly of 3 years of Latin, 50 years and more ago. I wasn&#8217;t ever really engaged in rigorous study of the language, though my boyish charm got me the Latin Award at least one of those years. Wish I&#8217;d really comprehended the possibilities for fine-tuned imprecations at the time, and been able to summon such as this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;vade et caca in pilleum et ipse traheatur super aures tuo,&#8221; which, loosely translated, means &#8220;Go shit in a hat and pull it down over your ears&#8221; (lit., &#8220;go shit in a [knit] hat &#038; let that same hat itself be pulled over your ears.&#8221;)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/05\/19\/legal-rebuttal-vade.html\">this BoingBoing story<\/a> for context)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had occasion to think fondly of 3 years of Latin, 50 years and more ago. I wasn&#8217;t ever really engaged in rigorous study of the language, though my boyish charm got me the Latin Award at least one of those years. Wish I&#8217;d really comprehended the possibilities for fine-tuned imprecations at the time, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2276,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/2276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}