{"id":308,"date":"2006-07-23T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T12:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2006-07-23T12:46:21","modified_gmt":"2006-07-23T12:46:21","slug":"passive-avoidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Passive avoidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/003382.html\">The ancient roots of passive avoidance<\/a> over at Language Log has either everything or nothing to do with the tragedical unwindings in the Levant. For a moment I thought that <i>lexis eiromene<\/i>and <i>lexis katestrammene<\/i> were on a different plane altogether from the bombast and dissembling, (akin to &#8220;Here&#8217;s to pure mathematics, may it never be any use to anybody.&#8221;), but there&#8217;s something Hemingwayish and unforesightful about the various actors in the current drama.<\/p>\n<p>\nDon&#8217;t miss the diagram at the end, and it&#8217;s worth meditating upon the statement  &#8220;Hemingway gives a physical description of a journey through a specific landscape, while Johnson offers an abstract discussion of the reasons for valuing older works over newer ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ancient roots of passive avoidance over at Language Log has either everything or nothing to do with the tragedical unwindings in the Levant. For a moment I thought that lexis eiromeneand lexis katestrammene were on a different plane altogether from the bombast and dissembling, (akin to &#8220;Here&#8217;s to pure mathematics, may it never be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}