{"id":75095,"date":"2020-02-18T09:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T15:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=75095"},"modified":"2020-02-22T10:10:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T16:10:30","slug":"words-words-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/words-words-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Words, words, words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t use the past tense of &#8220;to do&#8221; online, or <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/dont-use-the-word-did-or-a-dumb-anti-piracy-company-will-delete-you-from-google-200216\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Google will delete you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.mee.nu\/daily_news_stuff_18_february_2020\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pixy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wmbriggs.com\/post\/29271\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Be wary of homonyms<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Expert<\/em> is not the English word of the same spelling and pronunciation, and which means \u201cone who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.\u201d This old word still exists and is in use in areas in which deplorables are to be found.<\/p>\n<p>But this old useful word is just not the same as the modern <em>expert<\/em>. This modern word, which can only be distinguished in context from the old, means \u201ca flack who repeats the consensus, and who causes the consensus.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/serpentshouse.com\/2020\/02\/17\/thought-of-the-day-on-the-word-reactionary\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Reactionary&#8221; may be an unsatisfactory term<\/a>, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; I suppose bearing with things that you\u2019re stuck with because they\u2019ve been codified by long use is more or less a principle of being a reactionary. So it all works out!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t use the past tense of &#8220;to do&#8221; online, or Google will delete you. (Via Pixy.) *** Be wary of homonyms: Expert is not the English word of the same spelling and pronunciation, and which means \u201cone who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.\u201d This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/words-words-words\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Words, words, words&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-jxd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75098,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75095\/revisions\/75098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}