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- Carmen_Possum abstract "Carmen Possum is a popular 80-line macaronic poem written in a mix of Latin and English. Its author is unknown, but the poem's theme and language enable one to surmise that he or she was from the United States of America and was either a teacher or at least a student of Latin.The poem's title represents a multilingual play on words: Possum is Latin for \"I can\"/\"I am able to\" and colloquial English for \"opossum.\" While carmen possum sounds like a well-formed Latin phrase to untrained ears, its meaning in context reveals that at least this instance of it is not: On one hand, the only even arguably correct Latin construction translates as \"I am capable of song\" (with \"of\" here constituting not a stand-alone preposition but rather a portion of an English phrasal verb), satisfying (if only barely) the requirements of syntax at the expense of replacing the title's clearly intended semantic content with a clearly unintended counterpart. On the other, the fact that a proper translation of \"Song of [the] Opossum\" into Latin would involve a non-nominative, usually genitive, construction ([o]possi rather than [o]possum) shows that one cannot read the title as having the semantic content clearly intended by its author without also disregarding syntactic rules' constraints on the title's permissible meanings or at least presuming the title's author to have violated those rules when writing it.The poem can be used as a pedagogical device for elementary Latin teaching. The language mix includes vocabulary, morphology (turnus) and grammar (trunkum longum).Carmen Possum is also an unpublished musical piece by Normand Lockwood.".
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- Carmen_Possum wikiPageWikiLink Rabbit.
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- Carmen_Possum wikiPageWikiLink Rat.
- Carmen_Possum wikiPageWikiLink The_Motor_Bus.
- Carmen_Possum wikiPageWikiLink The_Talents_(play).
- Carmen_Possum wikiPageWikiLink Trunk_(botany).
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- Carmen_Possum wikiPageWikiLinkText "Carmen Possum".
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- Carmen_Possum subject Category:American_poems.
- Carmen_Possum subject Category:Macaronic_language.
- Carmen_Possum type Work.
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- Carmen_Possum comment "Carmen Possum is a popular 80-line macaronic poem written in a mix of Latin and English.".
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