{"id":1468,"date":"2013-08-19T00:05:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T05:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/08\/imply-vs-infer\/"},"modified":"2013-08-19T00:05:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T05:05:56","slug":"imply-vs-infer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/08\/imply-vs-infer\/","title":{"rendered":"Imply vs Infer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Dwayne Phillips<br \/>\n<strong>I am unable to say, &#8220;You implied such-and-such.&#8221; I know it is a small distinction that difference between imply and infer, but it bothers me.<\/strong><br \/>\nI continue to stumble upon these two words: imply and infer. I her people say, &#8220;You implied such-and-such.&#8221;<br \/>\nSince this is my blog, I can rant to my choosing.<br \/>\nWhen you say something, I can infer things from your statement.<br \/>\nWhen I say something, I can imply things in my statement.<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t work the other way around. Perhaps if I were more clever, I would know what you are implying. I confess, however, that I am not clever and I doubt that I will become clever. Therefore, I will continue to only to infer from what you say. I ask the same of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dwayne Phillips I am unable to say, &#8220;You implied such-and-such.&#8221; I know it is a small distinction that difference between imply and infer, but it bothers me. I continue to stumble upon these two words: imply and infer. I her people say, &#8220;You implied such-and-such.&#8221; Since this is my blog, I can rant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,5],"tags":[154,128],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-writing","tag-communication","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}