{"id":327,"date":"2006-08-18T18:37:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T17:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/18\/about-the-inhabitants-of-javapolis\/"},"modified":"2016-02-11T08:02:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T07:02:28","slug":"about-the-inhabitants-of-javapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/about-the-inhabitants-of-javapolis\/","title":{"rendered":"About the inhabitants of JavaPolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linguistic nit-picking on a Friday afternoon:<br \/>\nI noticed this phrase over at the JavaPolis 06 website (a login is required):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>17 299 JavaPolians registered<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I started wondering why JavaPolian, why not JavaPolitans? <\/p>\n<p>After all, people living in a <a href=\"http:\/\/m-w.com\/dictionary\/metropolis\">metropolis<\/a> are <a href=\"http:\/\/m-w.com\/dictionary\/metropolitan\">metropolitans or have metropolitan characteristics<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>The same applies for people from Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the ending for metropolis is different in French or Flemish&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd what about the inhabitants of Atlantis, what are they called? <\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the benefits of a linguistics degree are endless.  <\/p>\n<p>More linguistic <a href=\"http:\/\/m-w.com\/dictionary\/nit-picking\">nit-picking<\/a> available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/10\/29\/lead-the-way\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linguistic nit-picking on a Friday afternoon: I noticed this phrase over at the JavaPolis 06 website (a login is required): 17 299 JavaPolians registered And I started wondering why JavaPolian, why not JavaPolitans? After all, people living in a metropolis are metropolitans or have metropolitan characteristics. The same applies for people from Minneapolis. Maybe the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-5h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}