{"id":34457,"date":"2025-10-16T09:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34457"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:18:10","slug":"no-truck-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/16\/no-truck-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No Truck&#8221; Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, gentle reader; I have been on the alert for the &#8220;no truck with&#8221; slangism <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/18\/book-report-100-love-sonnets-by-pablo-neruda-translated-by-stephen-tapscott-1959-1986\/\" target=\"_new\">since the 1990s<\/a>, and I have come across it twice in books I&#8217;m reading or I have recently read, one from the 1920s and one translated in 2007 (you&#8217;ll see in the book reports, gentle reader, eventually).<\/p>\n<p>But I also want to point out that the inestimable Kim du Toit used the very phrase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kimdutoit.com\/2025\/10\/16\/theft-in-pursuit-of-an-agenda\/\" target=\"_new\">today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Needless to say, the U.S. will have no truck with this nonsense \u2014 at least, the current generation of U.S. leaders won\u2019t&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have I ever seen the phrase where someone or something <em>has truck with<\/em>?  No, it&#8217;s always the negative.<\/p>\n<p>MfBJN will keep you up-to-date on appearances of this phrase.  Check back often!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, gentle reader; I have been on the alert for the &#8220;no truck with&#8221; slangism since the 1990s, and I have come across it twice in books I&#8217;m reading or I have recently read, one from the 1920s and one translated in 2007 (you&#8217;ll see in the book reports, gentle reader, eventually). But I also [&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-34457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34457","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=34457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34460,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34457\/revisions\/34460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}