{"id":3346,"date":"2011-02-04T19:38:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T01:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2011-02-04T19:38:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T01:38:02","slug":"pedantic-footnote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/pedantic-footnote\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedantic footnote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sorta-official alternative title for <strong><em>Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica<\/em><\/strong> is &#8220;Puella Magi Madoka Magica.&#8221; Grrr. &#8220;Puella&#8221; (&#8220;girl,&#8221; nominative singular) is a feminine noun in Latin, so the proper form of the adjective &#8220;magus&#8221; (&#8220;magic&#8221;) is &#8220;maga,&#8221; not &#8220;magi.&#8221; I suppose whoever is responsible was trying to avoid calling the show &#8220;Magical Girl Magical Madoka.&#8221; I&#8217;d suggest either sticking with &#8220;Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica&#8221; or just calling the series &#8220;Magical Madoka.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Maureen interprets the title differently in the comments below. She may well be right, but I&#8217;m not convinced that it&#8217;s what the SHAFT staff had in mind.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Irresponsible speculation: between whom will the final battle be?<\/p>\n<a name=\"pd_a_4502302\"><\/a>\n<div class=\"CSS_Poll PDS_Poll\" id=\"PDI_container4502302\" style=\"display:inline-block;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"PD_superContainer\"><\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\" src=\"https:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/4502302.js\"><\/script>\n<noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/poll.fm\/4502302\">Take Our Poll<\/a><\/noscript>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sorta-official alternative title for Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica is &#8220;Puella Magi Madoka Magica.&#8221; Grrr. &#8220;Puella&#8221; (&#8220;girl,&#8221; nominative singular) is a feminine noun in Latin, so the proper form of the adjective &#8220;magus&#8221; (&#8220;magic&#8221;) is &#8220;maga,&#8221; not &#8220;magi.&#8221; I suppose whoever is responsible was trying to avoid calling the show &#8220;Magical Girl Magical Madoka.&#8221; I&#8217;d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/pedantic-footnote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pedantic footnote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,23],"tags":[347],"class_list":["post-3346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumbling-and-muttering","category-polls","tag-mahou-shoujo-madoka-magica"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-RY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}