{"id":198,"date":"2004-05-06T11:29:32","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T15:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2004\/05\/06\/sivana-cant-whup-nobody\/"},"modified":"2004-05-06T11:29:32","modified_gmt":"2004-05-06T15:29:32","slug":"sivana-cant-whup-nobody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2004\/05\/06\/sivana-cant-whup-nobody\/","title":{"rendered":"Sivana Can’t Whup Nobody"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Marvel 13”<\/p>\n

The sharp eye will here discern Marvel’s Latinity (written on the Marvelium mausoleum) to be something less than marvelous. Memoria<\/i> is, of course, feminine, and in<\/i> takes the accusative here, so the inscription would be less odiously improper if it said “In Memoriam to Captain Marvel”. If one were cutting it uncommonly fine, one might put some separative punctuation (colon, anyone?) between the Latin and the English, to signify that they are acting in something like apposition to each other.<\/p>\n

Marvel’s, however, is a pretty common error, and his innovations in the physical realm are surely such that to criticize him overmuch for such a faux pas<\/i> would be the act of a scrub — a scrub, one doubts not, who has never invented a new element.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Phrase<\/B><\/td>\n# hits<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
In Memorium<\/i><\/td>\n51,200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
In Memoriam<\/i><\/td>\n642,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Incidentally, Marvelium’s atomic number is given as 99. Sivanium and Shazamium (of which the bracelet is made) are 97 and 98. These numbers, it so happens, now belong to non-fictional elements which were discovered after this comic was made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Atomic #<\/b><\/td>\nFict. Name<\/b><\/td>\nReal Name<\/b><\/td>\nMoral<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
97<\/td>\nSivanium<\/td>\nBerkelium<\/td>\nI refute Sivana thus<\/i>!!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
98<\/td>\nShazamium<\/td>\nCalifornium<\/td>\nOnce a hippie, always a hippie.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
99<\/td>\nMarvelium<\/td>\nEinsteinium<\/td>\nBrains over brawn.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Marvel 13” The sharp eye will here discern Marvel’s Latinity (written on the Marvelium mausoleum) to be something less than marvelous. Memoria is, of course, feminine, and in takes the accusative here, so the inscription would be less odiously improper if it said “In Memoriam to Captain Marvel”. If one were cutting it uncommonly fine, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}