{"id":1623,"date":"2005-04-29T21:05:38","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T05:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2005-11-13T22:32:05","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T06:32:05","slug":"jargon-often-travels-poorly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1623","title":{"rendered":"jargon often travels poorly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kenmacleod.blogspot.com\/\">Ken MacLeod<\/a>&#8216;s recent novel <i>Newton&#8217;s Wake<\/i> (whose title I&#8217;m not sure I understand) has a character say: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> What we do is you tell us some more about Eurydice and its beautiful people, and then you get tired and emotional, and then we take you home. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <i>tired and emotional<\/i> is wink-wink euphemism for <i>drunk<\/i>, popularized (I gather) by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.private-eye.co.uk\/\">Private Eye<\/a>.  How many Americans, I thought, will be baffled?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken MacLeod&#8216;s recent novel Newton&#8217;s Wake (whose title I&#8217;m not sure I understand) has a character say: What we do is you tell us some more about Eurydice and its beautiful people, and then you get tired and emotional, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1623\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}