{"id":2130,"date":"2016-02-25T01:38:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T06:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2016-02-13T09:43:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T14:43:29","slug":"synonyms-dont-work-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/02\/synonyms-dont-work-sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Synonyms Don&#8217;t Work (Sometimes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>When writing about technical subjects, use the correct nouns and verbs as synonyms don&#8217;t work.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In various forms of writing about technical subjects, synonyms don&#8217;t work. For example, when describing electric current, <em>flow\u2014<\/em>as in the flow of electrons or current<em>\u2014<\/em>can&#8217;t be replaced by <em>drift<\/em> or <em>glide, <\/em>which are otherwise perfectly good synonyms for flow<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are many other examples to cite, but not necessary here. What is necessary, is that when discussing topics with practitioners,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Learn the correct nouns and verbs and learn when synonyms won&#8217;t work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips When writing about technical subjects, use the correct nouns and verbs as synonyms don&#8217;t work. In various forms of writing about technical subjects, synonyms don&#8217;t work. For example, when describing electric current, flow\u2014as in the flow of electrons or current\u2014can&#8217;t be replaced by drift or glide, which are otherwise perfectly good synonyms [&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-2130","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\/2130","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=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}