{"id":8659,"date":"2013-07-08T16:41:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T16:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/08\/retronyms\/"},"modified":"2013-07-08T16:41:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T16:41:26","slug":"retronyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/08\/retronyms\/","title":{"rendered":"Retronyms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Keith Burgess-Jackson<a href=\"http:\/\/keithburgess-jackson.typepad.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/retronym.html\" target=\"_self\"> writes<\/a>, &quot;First there was a copy; then there was an electronic copy; then there was a physical copy.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">To which I add:&#0160; &#0160;First I had a plain old address; then I acquired an e-mail address, so that now my plain old address is a physical address.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Should we speak of retronymic families?&#0160; &#39;Physical address&#39; and &#39;snail mail&#39; belong together in one family, &#39;acoustic guitar&#39; and &#39;acoustic set&#39; in another.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Burgess-Jackson writes, &quot;First there was a copy; then there was an electronic copy; then there was a physical copy.&quot; To which I add:&#0160; &#0160;First I had a plain old address; then I acquired an e-mail address, so that now my plain old address is a physical address. Should we speak of retronymic families?&#0160; &#39;Physical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/08\/retronyms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retronyms&#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-8659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659","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=8659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}