{"id":3082,"date":"2020-03-23T01:15:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T06:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2020-02-29T09:19:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T14:19:40","slug":"abuse-and-abusers-and-other-parts-of-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/03\/abuse-and-abusers-and-other-parts-of-the-english-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuse and Abusers and Other Parts of the English Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Some of life&#8217;s more complicated moral issues are fairly simple when we use words per their meanings.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want to stop abuse at fill-in-the-blank? Don\u2019t bring in abusive persons, i.e., abusers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want to stop lying? Don\u2019t bring in lying persons, i.e., liars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funny how the English language works and answers our own questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Some of life&#8217;s more complicated moral issues are fairly simple when we use words per their meanings. Want to stop abuse at fill-in-the-blank? Don\u2019t bring in abusive persons, i.e., abusers. Want to stop lying? Don\u2019t bring in lying persons, i.e., liars. Funny how the English language works and answers our own questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,412,66],"tags":[336,413,186],"class_list":["post-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-language","category-word","tag-ethics","tag-language","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","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=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3083,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}