{"id":3177,"date":"2020-04-22T11:56:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T11:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/22\/clearly\/"},"modified":"2020-04-22T11:56:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T11:56:06","slug":"clearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/22\/clearly\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Clearly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">It is better to be clear than to write &#39;Clearly, ____________.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Similarly with &#39;surely,&#39; &#39;plainly,&#39; &#39;obviously,&#39; &#39;undoubtedly,&#39; and others. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">What should we call such words?&#0160; Asseveratives?&#0160; Assuratives?&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I know a guy who, if you preface a remark with &#39;surely,&#39; you receive in response, &quot;Don&#39;t call me &#39;Shirley.&#39;&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is better to be clear than to write &#39;Clearly, ____________.&#39; Similarly with &#39;surely,&#39; &#39;plainly,&#39; &#39;obviously,&#39; &#39;undoubtedly,&#39; and others. What should we call such words?&#0160; Asseveratives?&#0160; Assuratives?&#0160; I know a guy who, if you preface a remark with &#39;surely,&#39; you receive in response, &quot;Don&#39;t call me &#39;Shirley.&#39;&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}