{"id":13435,"date":"2010-11-22T09:16:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2010\/11\/22\/the-arguable-fact.html"},"modified":"2010-11-22T09:16:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:16:20","slug":"the-arguable-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2010\/11\/22\/the-arguable-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"The arguable fact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have some sympathy for this kind of construction, 'cause I've done it too:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There's no way to two-step around the fact that season 11 of <cite>Dancing with the Stars<\/cite> has arguably been the most controversial in the show's history<\/p>\n<p>&mdash;&ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20444128,00.html\">Why Bristol Palin May Win Dancing with the Stars<\/a>,&rdquo; by Monica Rizzo, 22 November 2010<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But I try to rewrite it when I notice that I've done it. Because it's an absolute and undeniably certain unquestionable fact that I think maybe possibly this construction is a little bit kind of sort of contradictory and slightly somewhat self-undermining.<\/p>\n<p>Is it a fact or isn't it? If it is, then don't qualify it with uncertainty indicators. And if it's uncertain, then don't call it a fact, and certainly don't emphasize that it's an indisputable fact.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have some sympathy for this kind of construction, &#8217;cause I&#8217;ve done it too: There&#8217;s no way to two-step around the fact that season 11 of Dancing with the Stars&#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":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}