{"id":199,"date":"2010-10-19T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/10-3\/wheat-from-the-chaff-a-choice-of-words"},"modified":"2011-07-21T11:29:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:29:47","slug":"wheat-from-the-chaff-a-choice-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/199","title":{"rendered":"A Choice of Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/199\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"blog\"><!-- back and forward --><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogbody\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span>Here&#8217;s an interesting exercise. Replace one word in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/life\/Plans+multicultural+country+have+failed+chancellor+admits\/3686949\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Sun headline<\/a> below, and ask how the meaning of the headline has changed. Let&#8217;s replace &#8220;admits&#8221; with &#8220;argues&#8221;. Such a change makes the revealed &#8220;truth&#8221; more a matter of debate and interpretation. Yet I&#8217;d <em>argue<\/em> that this is a reasonable change in wording, given that the article itself never says &#8220;admit&#8221;, and that Angela Merkel has made a fairly dramatic, and probably strategic, <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/idUKTRE68H1NY20100918?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a54:g12:r4:c0.317070:b38379308:z3\" target=\"_blank\">change in her own position<\/a> on German &#8220;multiculturalism&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/life\/Plans+multicultural+country+have+failed+chancellor+admits\/3686949\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wheatfromthechaff.lexiconic.net\/media\/bias1.jpg\" alt=\"Headline\" width=\"543\" height=\"463\" align=\"middle\" border=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"posted\">Posted by <a href=\"mailto:cwelch@lexiconic.net\">Colin Welch<\/a> at 7:56 PM<br \/>\n<em>Edited on: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 8:22 PM<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting exercise. Replace one word in the Vancouver Sun headline below, and ask how the meaning of the headline has changed. Let&#8217;s replace &#8220;admits&#8221; with &#8220;argues&#8221;. Such a change makes the revealed &#8220;truth&#8221; more a matter of debate and interpretation. Yet I&#8217;d argue that this is a reasonable change in wording, given that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,14,16],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-issues","category-in-a-philosophical-mood","category-language","category-media","tag-multiculturalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}