{"id":1149,"date":"2003-11-18T14:05:55","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T22:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2006-11-18T00:03:41","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T08:03:41","slug":"and-thats-on-the-up-and-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1149","title":{"rendered":"and that&#8217;s on the up and up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-csli.stanford.edu\/~nunberg\/upandup.html\">Geoffrey Nunberg<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>we understand each other worse, and it matters less, than any of us suppose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <i>[Which goes well with <a href=\"?p=1411\">this item<\/a>.]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This item was found by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bisso.com\/ujg_archives\/000278.html\">Jim Bisso (Uncle Jazzbeau)<\/a> and discussed at more length by and with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.languagehat.com\/archives\/000975.php\">Languagehat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of Nunberg&#8217;s examples is: <i>The pool is deceptively shallow.<\/i>  Some take this to mean the pool is deeper than it looks, some the opposite &#8212; but I wouldn&#8217;t use it either way; to me it means that the pool both <em>is<\/em> and <em>appears<\/em> shallow, but one who infers from that lone fact that one can safely wade in it would be dangerously mistaken (because it has alligators or treacherous currents).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Nunberg: we understand each other worse, and it matters less, than any of us suppose. [Which goes well with this item.] This item was found by Jim Bisso (Uncle Jazzbeau) and discussed at more length by and with Languagehat. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1149\">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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}