{"id":1411,"date":"2004-08-09T22:06:56","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T06:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2004-11-12T08:42:54","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T16:42:54","slug":"language-is-bluffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1411","title":{"rendered":"language is bluffing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One <a href=\"http:\/\/ablauttime.blogspot.com\/2004\/08\/language-is-bluffing.html\">David Mortensen<\/a> observes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. language is a code employed only by code-breakers: that none of us knows the language we speak as a fully explicit system. Instead, we bluff our way through, filling in the gaps in our knowledge of the code with an inference here and a leap of logic there. This capacity to extrapolate from the known to the unknown is, in essense, grammar. .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Cited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.languagehat.com\/archives\/001486.php\">languagehat<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One David Mortensen observes: .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. language is a code employed only by code-breakers: that none of us knows the language we speak as a fully explicit system. Instead, we bluff our way through, filling in the gaps in our knowledge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1411\">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":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","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=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}