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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 The language mix includes vocabulary, morphology (turnus) and grammar (trunkum longum).Carmen Possum is also an unpublished musical piece by Normand Lockwood.".
- Carmen_Possum wikiPageExternalLink lock.html.
- Carmen_Possum wikiPageExternalLink carmen.htm.
- Carmen_Possum wikiPageID "665372".
- Carmen_Possum wikiPageRevisionID "560523259".
- Carmen_Possum hasPhotoCollection Carmen_Possum.
- Carmen_Possum subject Category:American_poems.
- Carmen_Possum subject Category:Macaronic_language.
- Carmen_Possum type Abstraction100002137.
- Carmen_Possum type AmericanPoems.
- Carmen_Possum type Communication100033020.
- Carmen_Possum type LiteraryComposition106364329.
- Carmen_Possum type Poem106377442.
- Carmen_Possum type Writing106362953.
- Carmen_Possum type WrittenCommunication106349220.
- Carmen_Possum comment "Carmen Possum is a popular 80-line macaronic poem written in a mix of Latin and English.".
- Carmen_Possum label "Carmen Possum".
- Carmen_Possum sameAs m.03113s.
- Carmen_Possum sameAs Q5043550.
- Carmen_Possum sameAs Q5043550.
- Carmen_Possum sameAs Carmen_Possum.
- Carmen_Possum wasDerivedFrom Carmen_Possum?oldid=560523259.
- Carmen_Possum isPrimaryTopicOf Carmen_Possum.