{"id":1687,"date":"2013-03-11T14:21:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T12:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=1687\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T12:22:29","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-cardinal-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-cardinal-error\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>cardinal error<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the papal conclave, a radio journalist asked me the origin of the expression \u201ccardinal error\u201d. I would have liked to tell a colorful tale about an insidious prince of the church who turned the course of history by selecting the wrong pope. Sadly, word origins rarely offer such entertaining stories. In this case, the dictionary says that the adjective <i>cardinal<\/i> means \u2018principal, fundamental, chief, very serious, grave&#8217;. The Finnish <i>kardinaali<\/i> isn\u2019t widely used in a non-ecclesiastical sense; our dictionary mentions <i>cardinal error, cardinal numbers, cardinal bird<\/i>, and <i>cardinalfish<\/i>. In English, <i>cardinal<\/i>appears as an adjective much more often: <i>cardinal principle<\/i> gets 179 000Google hits, <i>cardinal rule<\/i> has 688 000 hits, and <i>cardinal direction<\/i>26 300 000. All <i>cardinals<\/i> have Latin roots; remaining unaware of those<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?term=cardinal\">origins<\/a> could be a cardinal sin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the papal conclave, a radio journalist asked me the origin of the expression \u201ccardinal error\u201d. I would have liked to tell a colorful tale about an insidious prince of the church who turned the course of history by selecting the wrong pope. Sadly, word origins rarely offer such entertaining stories. In this case, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}