{"id":131,"date":"2001-10-30T09:12:20","date_gmt":"2001-10-30T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2001\/10\/30\/131.html"},"modified":"2001-10-30T09:12:20","modified_gmt":"2001-10-30T17:12:20","slug":"tmesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2001\/10\/30\/tmesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tmesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mary Anne wrote that Emerson \"stuck another word in the midst of 'whatsoever' -- i.e., 'what difficulty soever' or 'what pleasure soever' -- I didn't know you could do that!\"  Not only can you do it, there's a name for it: <i>tmesis.<\/i>  I mentioned it briefly in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/words\/lower3\/rrrhetoric.html\">column on rhetorical devices<\/a>; the most common example is <i>fan-fucking-tastic!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voidmonster.com\/Journal\/\">Zak<\/a> pointed out that words like <i>cleave<\/i> and <i>sanction,<\/i> words that have two opposite meanings, are known as <i>Janus words.<\/i>  Made me want to write a column about that too.  \"I'm my own antonym.\"<\/p>\n<p>I miss that column.  Maybe someday I'll still finish up the missing five installments from the end of last year.  Maybe.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Anne wrote that Emerson &#8220;stuck another word in the midst of &#8216;whatsoever&#8217; &#8212; i.e., &#8216;what difficulty soever&#8217; or &#8216;what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}