{"id":11236,"date":"2008-06-14T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T21:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/06\/14\/11236.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:48:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:42","slug":"having-a-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/06\/14\/having-a-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Having a stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just as a matter of curiosity, do any of y&#8217;all know why the American abbreviation for <i>air-conditioning<\/i> is <i>A\/C<\/i> with a slash? It would be bizarre to see <i>air\/conditioning<\/i>, but we expect <i>A\/C<\/i>, and I use that more naturally than I use <i>A.C.<\/i> or <I>AC<\/i>. Wikipedia&#8217;s entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slash_%28punctuation%29\">the slash<\/a> reminds me that <i>b\/w<\/i>, <i>i\/o<\/i> and <i>O\/O<\/i> are also abbreviations that introduce the slash mark where there was none before. What&#8217;s up w\/dat?<br \/>\n<p>Also, just to check: YHB uses <i>air conditioning<\/i> solely to refer to cooling, that is, making a car or room less warm, and uses <I>heating<\/i> to refer to making it warmer. A unit designed to condition air (vaddevah dat means) without changing its temperature would be a ventilator, or a humidifier or dehumidifier, if that were it&#8217;s main purpose, or an air filter (or filtration system if I were feeling office-speak-y). Or, you know, a fan. But an A\/C unit is for cooling, right? Or is this not the common use?<br \/>\n<p>In part, I&#8217;m curious because my Prius appears to use <i>air conditioning<\/i> to mean the whole process of fan and filter and heat and cool. The button is marked <I>climate<\/i>, but the dash says <i>A\/C on<\/i> if the heater is working. This seems wrong to me. Does it seem wrong to y&#8217;all?<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which a storm&#8217;s a-comin&#8217;, looks mighty big.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18398,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236\/revisions\/18398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}