{"id":316,"date":"2015-03-10T23:07:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T23:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2015-03-10T23:07:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T23:07:22","slug":"idiomatic-mirroring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Idiomatic Mirroring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-323\" src=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cold-chicken-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"cold-chicken\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cold-chicken-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cold-chicken.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I&#8217;m endlessly fascinated by idioms &#8211; mostly by the way people misuse them, of course.\u00a0 Mostly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=518\">problems arise<\/a> when people don&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=526\">think back<\/a> to how the metaphorical language came about,but there are other ways cliches and idioms can go wrong.\u00a0 For instance, in normal use of language, one can often flip the meaning of a sentence by reversing a pharsal verb in it (running <em>into<\/em> a house vs. running <em>out<\/em> of a house, for example).<\/p>\n<p>But idioms make things tricker.\u00a0 There are a number of tragedies in the events at the chicken houses that serve Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride, where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/03\/03\/usa-northcarolina-chickens-idUSL1N0W528R20150303\">a whole mess of chickens were killed by vengeful idiots before they could be turned into tenders or whatever<\/a>.\u00a0 But amongst all the other little tragedies was <span id=\"articleText\">Clarendon County Sheriff Randy Garrett<\/span> forgetting this characteristic of idiomatic language.\u00a0 It&#8217;s okay, if you must, to use the colloquial &#8220;jack up&#8221; rather than &#8220;turn up&#8221; to describe someone turning up the heat on unfortunate chickens, Sheriff, but you probably shouldn&#8217;t have tried to mirror the language when you described the heat being turned off for other chickens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m endlessly fascinated by idioms &#8211; mostly by the way people misuse them, of course.\u00a0 Mostly, problems arise when people don&#8217;t think back to how the metaphorical language came about,but there are other ways cliches and idioms can go wrong.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=316\">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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qgvH-56","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}