{"id":904,"date":"2003-02-17T01:12:37","date_gmt":"2003-02-17T09:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/02\/17\/904.html"},"modified":"2003-02-17T01:12:37","modified_gmt":"2003-02-17T09:12:37","slug":"an-ancient-human-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/02\/17\/an-ancient-human-word\/","title":{"rendered":"An ancient human word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How come when a character in an sf story says \"[word] is an ancient Terran [or human, or Earth] word, meaning [whatever],\" the ancient word being defined is always English?  I'd love to see a character say \"<i>Yama<\/i> is an ancient Terran word, meaning <i>mountain.<\/i>\"  Or \"<i>fam&iacute;lia<\/i> is an ancient Earth word referring to a common social unit of the time.\"  Or something.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the example that sparked this thought was actually using a German loanword, and the author may well have intended the comment to refer to the German word rather than the English version.  And I may well have seen other non-English examples and just not noticed them.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How come when a character in an sf story says &#8220;[word] is an ancient Terran [or human, or Earth] word,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}