{"id":1060,"date":"2015-10-10T07:57:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T14:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2015-10-10T07:57:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T14:57:16","slug":"foreign-loanwords-in-transition-what-should-they-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2015\/10\/10\/foreign-loanwords-in-transition-what-should-they-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign loanwords in transition: What should they look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might be surprised how often this comes up for professional writers and editors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawprose.org\/bryan-garner\/articles-about-bryan-garner\/\">Bryan Garner<\/a>, the ace lawyer &amp; editor &amp; language authority, explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The more arcane or technical a loanword, the more likely it is to retain a foreign plural, diacritical marks, and italics. The more common it becomes, the more likely it is to lose them.<\/p>\n<p>Corollary: If the loanword becomes widespread, it is most likely to lose italics first, then diacritical marks second, and a foreign plural last.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawprose.org\/lawprose-lesson-225-announcing-a-new-law\/\">He provides helpful examples.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You should bookmark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawprose.org\/lawprose-blog\/\">Garner&#8217;s delightful and erudite blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might be surprised how often this comes up for professional writers and editors. Bryan Garner, the ace lawyer &amp; editor &amp; language authority, explains: The more arcane or technical a loanword, the more likely it is to retain a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2015\/10\/10\/foreign-loanwords-in-transition-what-should-they-look-like\/\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-editing-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}