{"id":200545,"date":"2021-03-08T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/08\/today-in-language-2\/"},"modified":"2021-03-08T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T00:13:00","slug":"today-in-language-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/08\/today-in-language-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Another reminder that the word \u2018ultracrepidarian\u2019 (19th century) describes someone who loves holding forth on matters they know absolutely nothing about.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Susie Dent \ud83d\udc99 (@susie_dent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/susie_dent\/status\/1368867788027215875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>As my reader(s) have no doubt noticed, I rather like to use the archaic word, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=snollygoster&amp;max-results=20&amp;by-date=true\">Snollygoster,<\/a>&#8221; to refer to dishonest people, particularly politicians.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I find the word wondrously evocative, and believe that it should enter general use again.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I must thank Susie Dent for informing me about another wonderful word that has fallen out of use, &#8220;Ultracrepidarian,&#8221; which means someone who \u2026\u2026\u2026 Hell, it means almost every pundit on the planet earth with <i>NY Times<\/i> pundit Tom Friedman being the apogee (or perhaps nadir) of the form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another reminder that the word \u2018ultracrepidarian\u2019 (19th century) describes someone who loves holding forth on matters they know absolutely nothing about. \u2014 Susie Dent \ud83d\udc99 (@susie_dent) March 8, 2021 As my reader(s) have no doubt noticed, I rather like to use the archaic word, &#8220;Snollygoster,&#8221; to refer to dishonest people, particularly politicians.&nbsp; I find the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1011,1130,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-language","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}