{"id":6090,"date":"2016-10-30T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T12:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/30\/incentivize-incent-or-neither\/"},"modified":"2016-10-30T12:02:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T12:02:56","slug":"incentivize-incent-or-neither","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/30\/incentivize-incent-or-neither\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Incentivize,&#8217; &#8216;Incent,&#8217; or Neither?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Some discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/When-do-I-use-incenting-vs-incentivizing\">here<\/a>. My sense of style suggests the avoidance of both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/10\/30\/why_never_trump_will_doom_our_nation_132189.html\">Example<\/a>: &#0160;&quot;When was the last time Democrat, or Republican, tax hikes balanced the budget instead of merely incenting even more government spending?&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Language is fun even in cases in which it doesn&#39;t much matter, as here. &#0160;In politics, however, it matters greatly: he who controls the language controls the debate.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some discussion here. My sense of style suggests the avoidance of both. Example: &#0160;&quot;When was the last time Democrat, or Republican, tax hikes balanced the budget instead of merely incenting even more government spending?&quot; Language is fun even in cases in which it doesn&#39;t much matter, as here. &#0160;In politics, however, it matters greatly: he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/30\/incentivize-incent-or-neither\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Incentivize,&#8217; &#8216;Incent,&#8217; or Neither?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-6090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090","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=6090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}