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Grammar police. It is "Magna Carta" - "the" is incorrect. "This is because Latin doesn’t have articles; as a result, the Latin phrase “Magna Carta” doesn’t re
by testfoobar 3y ago
Grammar police. It is "Magna Carta" - "the" is incorrect.
"This is because Latin doesn’t have articles; as a result, the Latin phrase “Magna Carta” doesn’t require a “The” in front of it. "
https://huntington.org/verso/magna-charta https://huntington.org/verso/magna-charta
- Clamchop 3y agoI'm amused at the brash confidence that the laws of the language the word was borrowed from override the laws of the language it was borrowed into. Seems to me the grammar police are overstepping their jurisdiction and we're going to have to get the interlingual grammar courts involved to sort this out. Hope they do it soon, because English lets its speakers participate in government and this Latin sounds like a threat to democracy.
- denton-scratch 3y agoBut OP is correct; the name of the document (and the law it encodes) is Magna Carta. No article is used.
- Clamchop 3y agoSure, but that's a different justification rooted in English conventions (and even then, not perfectly reliable) rather than Latin ones. It would be as true for Harry Potter, no appeal to a foreign grammar needed.