{"id":38475,"date":"2019-11-22T00:07:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T00:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38475"},"modified":"2019-11-22T00:07:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T00:07:33","slug":"english-platitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-platitude\/","title":{"rendered":"English: platitude"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor mentions the word platitude.<\/h2>\n<p>\nplatitude: a meaningless remark made automatically.\n<\/p><p>\nA platitude might be &#8220;You&#8217;re soaked&#8221; when someone comes in from the rain. The common &#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry&#8221; when someone encounters misfortune is another example.<\/p>\n<p>When a society becomes completely politically correct, there&#8217;s little else left to say other than platitudes.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C (editor). <em>Merriam Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor mentions the word platitude. platitude: a meaningless remark made automatically. A platitude might be &#8220;You&#8217;re soaked&#8221; when someone comes in from the rain. The common &#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry&#8221; when someone encounters misfortune is another example. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-platitude\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: platitude<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38476,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38475\/revisions\/38476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}