{"id":394,"date":"2011-10-03T07:05:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T06:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/?p=394"},"modified":"2011-12-09T05:42:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T04:42:30","slug":"high-eolic-word-of-the-day-mengassan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"High Eolic word of the day: mengass\u00c3\u00a1n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/W_HE_134_mengassaan.mp3\">mengass\u00c3\u00a1n<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (noun): honest, open; trusting, na\u00c3\u00afve.<\/p>\n<p><em>ta civa <strong>mengass\u00c3\u00a1nd<\/strong>-es m\u00c3\u00a1cavis all\u00c3\u00a1ndev\u00c3\u00a1lec\u00c3\u00a1<\/em><br \/>\n<small>NEG become.COMPL honest-ESS they.SUBL hero.cloud.BEN.PL<\/small><br \/>\n&#8220;[there is no place for] honest men among the Champions of the Cloud&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the example sentence here: <a href=\"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/W_HE_134_mengassaan_example.mp3\">W_HE_134_mengassaan_example<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Eolic culture, the concept of honesty is not highly valued, as evident from the implications of the word <em>mengass\u00c3\u00a1n<\/em> (including na\u00c3\u00afvet\u00c3\u00a9). The example sentence is actually a praise for the Champions of the Cloud (<em>All\u00c3\u00a1ndev\u00c3\u00a1lec\u00c3\u00a1<\/em>) &#8211; an elite mounted unit that forms a formidable shock-trooper section of the Eolic army &#8211; since they are implied not to be easily trusting of others, and to always expect treachery of others (and only depend on themselves while carrying out orders from their superiors).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mengass\u00c3\u00a1n (noun): honest, open; trusting, na\u00c3\u00afve. ta civa mengass\u00c3\u00a1nd-es m\u00c3\u00a1cavis all\u00c3\u00a1ndev\u00c3\u00a1lec\u00c3\u00a1 NEG become.COMPL honest-ESS they.SUBL hero.cloud.BEN.PL &#8220;[there is no place for] honest men among the Champions of the Cloud&#8221; Listen to the example sentence here: W_HE_134_mengassaan_example In Eolic culture, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/?p=394\">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":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[25,9,11,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonafras.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}