{"id":33160,"date":"2012-10-09T06:19:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T06:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/09\/detective-martinsson-iamthefirechild-2\/"},"modified":"2012-10-09T06:19:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T06:19:19","slug":"detective-martinsson-iamthefirechild-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/09\/detective-martinsson-iamthefirechild-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

detective-martinsson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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detective-martinsson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u2018I used to be a detective down at the Ystad precinct. Nowadays, I\u2019m living the good life, and have been taking quite a few day trips up north.\u2019 The ex-detective\u2019s brow lowered in thought as he voiced his query. \u2018I hope I\u2019m not coming off as \u2018intrusive\u2019, but what do you mean by \u2018own me\u2019?\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cOh, whoops. You speak English so well, I forgot it must not be your first language!\u201d Summer laughed again, this time at herself. \u201cI mean, accept me as part of the family, however distant. It\u2019s an old usage. It\u2019s a bad habit of mine, finding old forms of the language and then confusing people with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2018English\u2019 was my best subject whilst at school, though I am always observant on my inappropriate grammar which can slip sometimes.\u2019 His expression softened into its usual calm demeanour at her answer. \u2018Ah, I see. I take it you\u2019re interested in the old languages then? Have you learnt Latin at all?\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Oh, no! And English, well, English only has Latin by virtue of the Norman invasion a thousand years ago, you know, Norman French, and the \/stupid\/ impositions of the churchmen, rules that didn’t even belong. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s like, maybe this is the same as in Swedish, but you know how in English there’s a rule, no split infinitives? Infinitive is the base form of the verb, like ‘to be,’ except English is one of the few languages where it’s actually two words at all. In Latin an infinitive is a single word and then you conjugate it, so of \/course\/ you can’t split it. But the rule doesn’t make any sense in English!” This whole fast, passionate spill of speech was accompanied by hands flailing in the air, until Summer caught sight of Magnus’ face and wound to a stop, turning red.<\/p>\n

“Oh, gods, I’m \/so\/ sorry.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

detective-martinsson: iamthefirechild: detective-martinsson: \u2018I used to be a detective down at the Ystad precinct. Nowadays, I\u2019m living the good life, and have been taking quite a few day trips up north.\u2019 The ex-detective\u2019s brow lowered in thought as he voiced his query. \u2018I hope I\u2019m not coming off as \u2018intrusive\u2019, but what do you mean … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,3698,140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}