{"id":228,"date":"2006-06-07T20:57:48","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T01:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=228"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:47:54","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:47:54","slug":"an-unnecessary-gloss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"An Unnecessary Gloss?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Boudu Saved from Drowning<\/em> (1932), the subtitles quote the maid as telling Priape Boudu &#8220;You behave like a Neanderthal&#8221;, but the last word is clearly audible as &#8216;troglodyte&#8217;.  Was the gloss really necessary?  Surely anyone likely to watch a 74-year-old movie in a Criterion edition knows the meaning of the word &#8216;troglodyte&#8217;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932), the subtitles quote the maid as telling Priape Boudu &#8220;You behave like a Neanderthal&#8221;, but the last word is clearly audible as &#8216;troglodyte&#8217;. Was the gloss really necessary? Surely anyone likely to watch a 74-year-old movie in a Criterion edition knows the meaning of the word &#8216;troglodyte&#8217;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orbilius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}