{"id":885,"date":"2007-03-15T20:21:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T20:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yetiinabox.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/15\/rediscovering-words\/"},"modified":"2007-03-15T20:21:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T20:21:31","slug":"rediscovering-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/2007\/03\/15\/rediscovering-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Re\/discovering words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been combing through dictionaries recently. <a href=\"http:\/\/dsal.uchicago.edu\/dictionaries\/schmidt\/\">Nepali<\/a>, Newari, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsl.ac.uk\/dsl\/\">Scottish<\/a>, Spanish and finally even English. It\u2019s given me back a few tangy terms I thought I had long since lost. <strong>Enthymeme<\/strong> <em><\/em> was given back to me today &#8211; an argument with a hidden presupposition. Eleanor, my youngest daughter, is growing up in a real language soup, as did I.<\/p>\n<p>For years at the dinner table people at Rancho Escondido would ask for a <em>skosh<\/em> more food. I had always assumed it was one of those rare Scots words that had somehow founds its way down the generations, but no. It comes from the Japanese <em>sukoshi<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Now Eleanor is mixing Scots and Newari is a glorious way. Pramming our way to school the other day I asked her, \u2018<em>Y\u0101kana vane maste va?\u2019 <\/em> to which she replied, \u2018<em>Ah ken hoo ta drive<\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been combing through dictionaries recently. Nepali, Newari, Scottish, Spanish and finally even English. It\u2019s given me back a few tangy terms I thought I had long since lost. Enthymeme&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[195,215,154,224,226,232,237],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-japanese","tag-language","tag-nepali","tag-newari","tag-scots","tag-spanish"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2DSYH-eh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}