{"id":75,"date":"2006-12-05T10:26:05","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T14:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=75"},"modified":"2006-12-05T10:26:05","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T14:26:05","slug":"wordly-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/75","title":{"rendered":"Wordly Wise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few good words (and terms) I&#8217;ve run across recently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/skepdic.com\/pareidol.html\">Pareidolia<\/a> &#8211; taking a vague pattern and seeing something clearly in it &#8211; pattern recognition gone awry. Think of Mother Theresa&#8217;s image on a piece of toast. The word is courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofhoaxes.com\/hoax\/weblog\/permalink\/victor_the_talking_budgie\/\">Victor the Talking Budgie<\/a> via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirchersociety.org\/blog\/?p=1050\">Kircher Society<\/a> web site. Paredolia&#8217;s polar opposite (antonym just doesn&#8217;t seem to fit this context) is a phenomenon I&#8217;ve heard described as native vision &#8211; the ability of a local to see something that someone who wasn&#8217;t intimately familiar with the environment would miss. Hmmm&#8230; think I need to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071411\/\">Dersu Uzala<\/a> again.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordnet.princeton.edu\/perl\/webwn?s=prolix\">Prolix<\/a> &#8211; windbag-ish. I&#8217;ve read through this word many times, assuming I understood it&#8217;s meaning from context. I finally looked it up &#8211; huge sigh of relief &#8211; I didn&#8217;t have my head lodged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Jollie (1976, 1977a, 1977b, 1977c) incorporated many aspects of the osteology of the group in his work, but as Olson (1985:108) pointed out, the work is &#8220;prolix and idiosyncratic&#8221; and it is &#8220;a labor of love&#8221; to extract information from it.     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLost-World-Moa-Prehistoric-Zealand%2Fdp%2F1877257214%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1165327080%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&#038;tag=hawkdog-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">The Lost World of the Moa<\/a>, Worthy and Holdaway<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/53877\">Nutpicking<\/a> &#8211; the practice of attempting to discredit a blog by grabbing the craziest comments you can find and claiming that they are representative. A vice that seems to be particularly prevalent among &#8216;traditional&#8217; journalists.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friedman_Unit\">Friedman Unit<\/a> (abbr. FU) &#8211; 6 months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few good words (and terms) I&#8217;ve run across recently: Pareidolia &#8211; taking a vague pattern and seeing something clearly in it &#8211; pattern recognition gone awry. Think of Mother Theresa&#8217;s image on a piece of toast. The word is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/75\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-1d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}