{"id":42037,"date":"2025-03-03T08:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42037"},"modified":"2025-03-03T08:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:30:24","slug":"how-not-to-write-a-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/03\/03\/how-not-to-write-a-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"How Not To Write A Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libnews.umn.edu\/2024\/12\/the-pizzigano-portolan-a-cartographic-mystery-at-the-james-ford-bell-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Pizzigano Portolan: A Cartographic Mystery at the James Ford Bell Library<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; published by the <em><strong>University of Minnesota Libraries<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In November 1954, 530 years after its creation, the James Ford Bell Library acquired what is known as the 1424 Nautical Chart, inscribed with the name of Venetian cartographer Zuane Pizzigano. It seems fitting to share it with you on its 600th anniversary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, no. The <em>James Ford Bell Library<\/em> is <strong>not<\/strong> 530 years old. Ambiguity can be fun, even exciting, but not in an official publication of <strong>UMN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if AI was involved in this mistake.<\/p>\n<p>This does make me consider the point of writing ambiguity-free sentences, though, and, for me, it&#8217;s precision, the smooth, error-free intake of information. Ambiguity is rather like forcing a porcupine, quills out, down one&#8217;s throat.<\/p>\n<p>I shan&#8217;t speculate as to the nature of the fluid best suited for helping the quilled monster down one&#8217;s esophagus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted in &#8220;The Pizzigano Portolan: A Cartographic Mystery at the James Ford Bell Library,&#8221; published by the University of Minnesota Libraries: In November 1954, 530 years after its creation, the James Ford Bell Library acquired what is known as the 1424 Nautical Chart, inscribed with the name of Venetian cartographer \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/03\/03\/how-not-to-write-a-sentence\/\"> 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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42047,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42037\/revisions\/42047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}