Why does “mutable” refer to all the things that we can change,
\nWhen it should mean “Can be silenced”? It all seems so very strange.<\/p>\n
And when we say “inflammable” we sound a bit confused,
\nFor it means the same as “flammable”. Consider me bemused.<\/p>\n
And then there is “impregnable”, which means something specific
\nExcept when it means something nearly opposite. Terrific.<\/p>\n
And when a thing is “current” it is up-to-date, you know.
\nBut also it’s … Oh never mind, let’s just go with the flow.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why does “mutable” refer to all the things that we can change, When it should mean “Can be silenced”? It all seems so very strange. And when we say “inflammable” we sound a bit confused, For it means the same as “flammable”. Consider me bemused. And then there is “impregnable”, which means something specific Except … Continue reading “Cross currents”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20715"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20719,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20715\/revisions\/20719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}