{"id":4997,"date":"2009-06-16T09:19:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T14:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4997"},"modified":"2009-06-16T09:19:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T14:19:30","slug":"the_times_a_sui_generis_feckless_solipsism_recondite_and_abstrusely_louche_--_sisyphean_appurtenance_enervating_paroxysm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/the_times_a_sui_generis_feckless_solipsism_recondite_and_abstrusely_louche_--_sisyphean_appurtenance_enervating_paroxysm.html","title":{"rendered":"The Times: A Sui Generis, Feckless Solipsism Recondite And Abstrusely Louche &#8212; Sisyphean Appurtenance, Enervating Paroxysm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where&#8217;s the gun? <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/16\/big-fancy-words\/\">Here&#8217;s my head<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Our choice of words should be thoughtful and precise, and we should never talk down to readers. But how often should even a Times reader come across a word like hagiography or antediluvian or peripatetic, especially before breakfast?<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Some entries seem self-referential: it&#8217;s no coincidence that a list of obscure and difficult words includes abstruse and recondite, not to mention solipsistic. And while many of these words may look like a foreign language, some actually are: sui generis, bildungsroman and my old friend schadenfreude all make appearances. And some entries just seem baffling: how did we end up using louche 27 times?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where&#8217;s the gun? Here&#8217;s my head: Our choice of words should be thoughtful and precise, and we should never talk down to readers. But how often should even a Times reader come across a word like hagiography or antediluvian or peripatetic, especially before breakfast? . . . Some entries seem self-referential: it&#8217;s no coincidence that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sliding_into_the_abyss_of_elitism_pretentiousness","category-the_new_york_times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4998,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997\/revisions\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}