{"id":4313,"date":"2026-07-19T17:29:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2026-07-19T17:29:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:29:33","slug":"decoding-the-absurd-a-journey-into-language-quirks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4313","title":{"rendered":"Decoding the absurd \u2014 a journey into language quirks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gazettenet.com\/2026\/07\/13\/guest-columnist-jonathan-kahane-decoding-the-absurd-a-journey-into-language-quirks\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Guest columnist Jonathan Kahane: Decoding the absurd \u2014 a journey into language quirks - Daily Hampshire Gazette\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">gazettenet.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Guest columnist Jonathan Kahane: Decoding the absurd \u2014 a journey into language quirks &#8211; Daily Hampshire Gazette<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">WARNING: If you\u2019re short on time at the moment and have a list of even trivial things to do you should skip to the next article immediately. Only pass the next minute or two reading this essay if you wish to immerse yourself in an insignificant \u2014 possibly even a meaningless topic of interest to [\u2026]<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-4313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4314,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}