{"id":146,"date":"2005-12-08T20:43:26","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T09:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=146"},"modified":"2005-12-08T20:45:50","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T09:45:50","slug":"adder-to-our-learnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/12\/08\/adder-to-our-learnings\/","title":{"rendered":"An Adder to our Learnings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have given up the fight against the word “learnings”.<\/p>\n

I understand if you use the word “undeleteable” instead of “indelible”. Indelible is an unusual word. But the noun you are looking to describe what you learnt is “lesson”, not “learnings”. “Lesson” isn’t a rare word. Every English-speaking six year old knows the word “lesson” and can use it correctly in a sentence. At what point in your career do you forget how to use a simple word like “lesson”, dammit!?<\/div>\n

Err… sorry. It seems I haven’t given up the fight yet, after all.<\/p>\n

Now, while my defences are still weak, I am being assaulted by the next word in the series: “adder” – as in, something that has been added.<\/p>\n

Let me try to help people out.<\/p>\n

“Adder” is an unusual word that has two definitions – (1) something or someone that adds; (2) a type of viper.<\/p>\n

“Addition” is a common word that has two definitions – (2) the act of adding; (2) the quantity that was added.<\/p>\n

It ain’t hard to pick the right one.<\/p>\n

I don’t mind the English language evolving; I just wish we could focus our attention on adding words to describe new concepts, not addering wordings because we disremember our Grade 2 Englishical learnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t mind the English language evolving; I just wish we could focus our attention…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cathartic-rant","category-influencing-others","category-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}