{"id":14343,"date":"2015-02-23T08:13:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T14:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14343"},"modified":"2015-02-23T13:35:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:35:55","slug":"the-default-antecedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/23\/the-default-antecedent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Default Antecedent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Nogglestead, sometimes we&#8217;re unclear in our communications.  Sometimes, we use pronouns whose antecedents are in our heads, like when we think of a particular item but call it:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"5\"><i>That thing<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to bring that thing in.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Hand me that thing.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And so on.  It might not be clear what &#8220;that thing&#8221; is, which can result in a communications error.<\/p>\n<p>For clarity, we&#8217;ve established a default antecedent in this case.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/chewbaccathing.jpg\" width=\"400\"><br \/><font size=\"1\"><i>&#8220;Where are you taking that thing?&#8221;<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Whenever someone says &#8220;that thing&#8221; without an appropriate gesture or talking about something specific prior to its usage, &#8220;that thing&#8221; is replaced with &#8220;Chewbacca&#8221; in the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to bring Chewbacca in.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Hand me Chewbacca.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This has improved interpersonal and intrapersonal communications greatly.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to use Chewbacca yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Nogglestead, sometimes we&#8217;re unclear in our communications. Sometimes, we use pronouns whose antecedents are in our heads, like when we think of a particular item but call it: That thing Such as: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to bring that thing in.&#8221; &#8220;Hand me that thing.&#8221; And so on. It might not be clear what &#8220;that thing&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14344,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14343\/revisions\/14344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}