{"id":46283,"date":"2023-09-08T01:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T01:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=46283"},"modified":"2023-09-08T01:46:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T01:46:04","slug":"english-philosophy-it-is-what-it-is-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-philosophy-it-is-what-it-is-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"English, philosophy: &#8220;It is what it is,&#8221; part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about clich&#233;s: the tutor continues with a well-worn one.<\/h2>\n<p>I mention &#8220;It is what it is&#8221; back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/philosophy-it-is-what-it-is-part-0\/\">my post of July 2, 2020.<\/a> Therein, I point out how it&#8217;s used to dismiss, or cover for, one&#8217;s own or someone else&#8217;s transgression.<\/p>\n<p>\nLately, someone else has also voiced a problem with &#8220;It is what it is&#8221;: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/money\/companies\/ivy-league-linguistics-expert-shares-the-no-1-common-phrase-to-never-use-it-really-means-your-problems-don-t-matter-to-me\/ar-AA1goxkS?ocid=entnewsntp&#038;cvid=25a83d3fcb13403db591f7f5601504bc&#038;ei=55\">John McWhorter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nMcWhorter sees right through &#8220;It is what it is,&#8221; and finds no place for it in the English language.<\/p>\n<p>\nEvery once in a while someone exposes a glib clich&#233; for what it is.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about clich&#233;s: the tutor continues with a well-worn one. I mention &#8220;It is what it is&#8221; back in my post of July 2, 2020. Therein, I point out how it&#8217;s used to dismiss, or cover for, one&#8217;s own or &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-philosophy-it-is-what-it-is-part-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English, philosophy: &#8220;It is what it is,&#8221; part 2<\/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":[2541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46283","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=46283"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46293,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46283\/revisions\/46293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}