{"id":8930,"date":"2013-03-10T13:15:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/10\/transpicuous\/"},"modified":"2013-03-10T13:15:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T13:15:29","slug":"transpicuous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/10\/transpicuous\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Transpicuous&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">When I&#0160;encountered &#39;transpicuous&#39; for the first time today, I thought the writer was either neologizing&#0160; by combining &#39;transparent&#39; and &#39;conspicuous,&#39; or else just confused.&#0160; But the word, though rare,<a href=\"http:\/\/oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/transpicuous\" target=\"_self\"> has been in the English language<\/a> since the 17th century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Use it or lose it!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Companion post: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2008\/11\/what-is-language-tool-enabler-dominatrix.html\" target=\"_self\">What is Language? Tool, Enabler, Dominatrix?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#0160;encountered &#39;transpicuous&#39; for the first time today, I thought the writer was either neologizing&#0160; by combining &#39;transparent&#39; and &#39;conspicuous,&#39; or else just confused.&#0160; But the word, though rare, has been in the English language since the 17th century. Use it or lose it! Companion post: What is Language? Tool, Enabler, Dominatrix?<\/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-8930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930","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=8930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}