{"id":148,"date":"2013-11-14T21:05:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T02:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forummagistrorum.com\/wpb\/?p=148"},"modified":"2013-11-14T15:47:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T20:47:12","slug":"motor-bus-declined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forummagistrorum.com\/wpb\/2013\/11\/motor-bus-declined\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor Bus, declined"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forummagistrorum.com\/wpb\/2012\/12\/motor-bus-declined\/800px-adelaide_to_glenelg_motor_bus_1926\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-238\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"238\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.forummagistrorum.com\/wpb\/2013\/11\/motor-bus-declined\/800px-adelaide_to_glenelg_motor_bus_1926\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.forummagistrorum.com\/wpb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/800px-Adelaide_to_Glenelg_motor_bus_1926.jpg?fit=800%2C452&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,452\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"800px-Adelaide_to_Glenelg_motor_bus_1926\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Motor Bus in 1926&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Motor Bus in 1926&lt;br \/&gt;\nState Library of South Australia&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.forummagistrorum.com\/wpb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/800px-Adelaide_to_Glenelg_motor_bus_1926.jpg?fit=800%2C452&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-238  \" alt=\"Motor Bus in 1926\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.forummagistrorum.com\/wpb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/800px-Adelaide_to_Glenelg_motor_bus_1926-300x169.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.forummagistrorum.com\/wpb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/800px-Adelaide_to_Glenelg_motor_bus_1926.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.forummagistrorum.com\/wpb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/800px-Adelaide_to_Glenelg_motor_bus_1926.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Motor Bus in 1926. State Library of South Australia<br \/>Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The Motor Bus&#8221; (1914), by Alfred Denis Godley, is a macaronic (mixed-language) poem that combines Latin with English by treating <em>motor bus<\/em> as a second declension noun modified by a third declension adjective. At the time of its composition, motor buses had recently been introduced into the city of Oxford (note the references to Cornmarket and High Streets).<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">\n<div style=\"float: right;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Cornmarket+Street,+Oxford,+United+Kingdom&amp;aq=0&amp;oq=cornmarket+oxford&amp;sll=42.036922,-71.683501&amp;sspn=3.088269,5.822754&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Cornmarket+St,+Oxford,+United+Kingdom&amp;t=m&amp;ll=51.752155,-1.255596&amp;spn=0.003985,0.006437&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=A&amp;output=embed\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=embed&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Cornmarket+Street,+Oxford,+United+Kingdom&amp;aq=0&amp;oq=cornmarket+oxford&amp;sll=42.036922,-71.683501&amp;sspn=3.088269,5.822754&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Cornmarket+St,+Oxford,+United+Kingdom&amp;t=m&amp;ll=51.752155,-1.255596&amp;spn=0.003985,0.006437&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=A\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>What is this that roareth thus?<br \/>\nCan it be a Motor Bus?<br \/>\nYes, the smell and hideous hum<br \/>\nIndicat Motorem Bum!<br \/>\nImplet in the Corn and High<br \/>\nTerror me Motoris Bi.<br \/>\nBo Motori clamitabo<br \/>\nNe Motore caedar a Bo&#8212;<br \/>\nDative be or Ablative<br \/>\nSo thou only let us live:&#8212;<br \/>\nWhither shall thy victims flee?<br \/>\nSpare us, spare us, Motor Be!<br \/>\nThus I sang; and still anigh<br \/>\nCame in hordes Motores Bi,<br \/>\nEt complebat omne forum<br \/>\nCopia Motorum Borum.<br \/>\nHow shall wretches live like us<br \/>\nCincti Bis Motoribus?<br \/>\nDomine, defende nos<br \/>\nContra hos Motores Bos!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Before reading this poem, it would be useful to discuss how the modern pronunciation of Latin varies from country to country. American students may already be aware that &#8220;alumni&#8221; and &#8220;alumnae&#8221; as naturalized English words reflect the pronunciation often associated with England. If you haven&#8217;t already gone into this, an interesting follow-up activity might be for students to think about how one would go about determining how classical Latin was pronounced and then do a little research into what we think we know and what the evidence is.<\/p>\n<p>From a language-learning standpoint, this should be a great reminder of the need to make nouns and adjectives agree (rather than making their endings &#8220;match&#8221;). It&#8217;s also got nice examples of the ablative with a compound of <em>pleo<\/em> and with <em>cingo<\/em>. Speaking of ablatives, the bus appears in the ablative with <em>a(b)<\/em> as an agent, which suits its personification throughout the poem (the bus is shouted at and addressed in the vocative).<\/p>\n<p>You can follow-up the in-class activity with an assignment for students to write their own macaronic poem, ideally treating an issue that has affected their own life or community. Since it&#8217;s not entirely in Latin, students can use vocabulary, morphology, and syntax that they know, but aren&#8217;t limited by that. Hence the activity is appropriate for students at quite early stages of study.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Motor Bus&#8221; is a macaronic poem that combines Latin with English by treating &#8220;motor bus&#8221; as a second declension noun modified by a third declension adjective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,43],"tags":[53,42,37],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-latin","tag-cases","tag-noun-adj-agreement","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Y2A5-2o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":471,"url":"https:\/\/www.forummagistrorum.com\/wpb\/2014\/07\/ian-hamilton-finlay\/","url_meta":{"origin":148,"position":0},"title":"Latin in the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay","author":"Ivy","date":"July 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The work of Scottish artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay often includes text, classical references, or both. 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