{"id":9465,"date":"2015-05-08T11:07:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T15:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/?p=9465"},"modified":"2015-05-08T11:07:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T15:07:18","slug":"the-annoying-orator-catullus-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/2015\/05\/08\/the-annoying-orator-catullus-84\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annoying Orator (Catullus 84)"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9465-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Goings_Catullus-Podcast.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Goings_Catullus-Podcast.mp3\">http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Goings_Catullus-Podcast.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Catullus&#8217; poem mocking the Roman orator Arrius for the pretentious aspirations in his speech (<em>chommoda<\/em> instead of <em>commoda<\/em>) shows that changing small details of one&#8217;s speech\u00a0to seem higher class is an enduring phenomenon, says <strong>Eli Goings<\/strong>. He makes an apt comparison with the tendency in English to add an extra h before words like &#8220;what&#8221; and &#8220;why,&#8221; and argues that its wit and linguistic playfulness is what sets Catullus 84 apart from most other Latin poems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vroma.org\/~bmcmanus\/socialclass.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9467\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Goings_socialclass_diagram-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Goings_socialclass_diagram\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Goings_socialclass_diagram-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Goings_socialclass_diagram-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Goings_socialclass_diagram.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chommoda d\u012bc\u0113bat, s\u012b quand\u014d commoda vellet<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">d\u012bcere, et \u012bnsidi\u0101s Arrius h\u012bnsidi\u0101s,<\/p>\n<p>et tum m\u012brific\u0113 sp\u0113r\u0101bat s\u0113 esse loc\u016btum,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">cum quantum poterat d\u012bxerat h\u012bnsidi\u0101s.<\/p>\n<p>Cr\u0113d\u014d, s\u012bc m\u0101ter, s\u012bc l\u012bber avunculus eius, 5<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">s\u012bc m\u0101ternus avus d\u012bxerat atque avia.<\/p>\n<p>H\u014dc miss\u014d in Syriam requi\u0113rant omnibus aur\u0113s:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">aud\u012bbant eadem haec l\u0113niter et leviter,<\/p>\n<p>nec sibi postill\u0101 metu\u0113bant t\u0101lia verba,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">cum subit\u014d affertur n\u016bntius horribilis, 10<\/p>\n<p>\u012aoni\u014ds fl\u016bct\u016bs, postquam ill\u016bc Arrius \u012bsset,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">iam n\u014dn \u012aoni\u014ds esse sed H\u012boni\u014ds.<\/p>\n<p>Image source: Barbara McManus at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vroma.org\/~bmcmanus\/socialclass.html\" target=\"_blank\">vroma.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catullus&#8217; poem mocking the Roman orator Arrius for the pretentious aspirations in his speech (chommoda instead of commoda) shows that changing small details of one&#8217;s speech\u00a0to seem higher class is an enduring phenomenon, says Eli Goings. He makes an apt comparison with the tendency in English to add an extra h before words like &#8220;what&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}