{"id":2545,"date":"1997-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1997-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/01\/27\/dactyl-comments\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T15:42:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T23:42:45","slug":"dactyl-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/01\/27\/dactyl-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"d: Everything Higgledy-Piggledy (Reader Comments)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Dominus, who can usually be counted upon to provide a comment, wrote:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"stanza\">Higgledy-Piggledy<br \/>\r\nisn't his favorite\u2014<br \/>\r\ntoo many syllables,<br \/>\r\nnot enough length.<br \/><br \/>\r\nMark-Jason Dominus<br \/>\r\ncan't do them anyway;<br \/>\r\nmetric analysis<br \/>\r\nisn't his strength.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"attribution\">\u2014Mark-Jason Dominus<\/p>\r\n<p>Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote to say: \"I once tried to combine the venerable Higgledy-Piggledy form with the equally well-respected Ten-Word Story, but the results speak for themselves.\"<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"stanza\">Higgledy-piggledy:<br \/>\r\nheterogenrism,<br \/>\r\nuninspirationally,<br \/>\r\ntriumph precludes.<br \/><br \/>\r\nObservifiably<br \/>\r\nbidactylometered<br \/>\r\ndecalexography<br \/>\r\ndoesn't amuse.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"attribution\">\u2014Ranjit Bhatnagar<\/p>\r\n<p>My main complaint about this one is that it's wrong\u2014it does amuse. At least, it amuses me. But I suppose Ranjit was only engaging in apophasis (claiming to deny something while actually affirming it).<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last updated: 27 March 1997)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/01\/26\/dactyl\/\">Back to column d<\/a><\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-double-dactyls","category-1-lowercase-1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","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=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}