{"id":58,"date":"2005-07-26T10:44:21","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T14:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=58"},"modified":"2005-07-26T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2005-07-26T14:44:21","slug":"the_richness_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/07\/the_richness_of\/","title":{"rendered":"The richness of language&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mind you, I had to run for the nearest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/\">Merriam-Webster<\/a> to find out what the heck &#8220;dragooned&#8221; means&#8230; I feel &#8220;harpooned&#8221; when I find a new word and the only way to take it out is to find their meaning. I should play more Scrabble&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"La Vache Qui Lit\" href=\"http:\/\/lavachequilit.typepad.com\/\">La Vache Qui Lit<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPerfectly clear words can be dragooned into sentences so grammatically torturous and incoherent that any meaning once inhabiting those words runs screaming fro<br \/>\nm the wreckage.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then, if you go and read the article with the <strong>&#8220;Dianetics&#8221;<\/strong> critic you find this quoted words from the book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDianetics begins with a stern admonition: &#8220;Important Note: In reading this book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wise words if I&#8217;ve ever read any&#8230; Talk about pointing to the obvious. Hey, Tom Cruise, &#8220;you had me at hello&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mind you, I had to run for the nearest Merriam-Webster to find out what the heck &#8220;dragooned&#8221; means&#8230; I feel &#8220;harpooned&#8221; when I find a new word and the only way to take it out is to find their meaning. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/07\/the_richness_of\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}