{"id":40,"date":"2005-08-17T00:08:53","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T04:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=40"},"modified":"2005-08-17T00:21:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T04:21:00","slug":"is-this-a-pun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Is This A Pun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the picture of the book jacket on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhamel.com\/blogographos\/archives\/2005_08_01_blogographos_archive.html#112346545277157908\">Blogographos<\/a>, it appears that Harry Potter in Greek is APEIO&#931; &#928;OTHP. Assuming the accents match, that also means &#8220;Warlike Drinking-Cup&#8221;. Perhaps those who have dipped into the Greek version can tell me whether Harry&#8217;s Greek name is accented on the <em>alpha<\/em> and the <em>eta<\/em>, like the Greek phrase. And perhaps those who have either read any of the books in any language or seen any of the movies can tell me whether that&#8217;s a &#8216;speaking name&#8217; or just a coincidence. It seems a bit inappropriate for one who is (I gather) too young to drink for most, if not all, of the time-span depicted in the series so far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> (ten minutes later)<\/p>\n<p>Assuming the translation is in Attic rather than Lesbian Aeolic, I suppose the eponymous hero has a rough breathing on his first name, in which case there is no match. Too bad: it still makes for a strikingly ambiguous effect on the cover, where the capitalization precludes accents and breathings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the picture of the book jacket on Blogographos, it appears that Harry Potter in Greek is APEIO&#931; &#928;OTHP. Assuming the accents match, that also means &#8220;Warlike Drinking-Cup&#8221;. Perhaps those who have dipped into the Greek version can tell me &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=40\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nachleben","category-orbilius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}