{"id":114681,"date":"2025-10-02T22:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=114681"},"modified":"2025-10-02T22:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:03:27","slug":"the-idea-of-necessary-or-necessity-is-hard-enough-to-define-in-one-language-let-alone-match-its-nuances-across-languages-as-different-as-arabic-and-english-nonetheless-doing-so-enh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=114681","title":{"rendered":"`The idea of &#8220;necessary&#8221; or &#8220;necessity&#8221; is hard enough to define in one language, let alone match its nuances across languages as different as #Arabic and #English.\u00a0 Nonetheless, doing so enhances our understanding of the words in each of the #comparanda.`\n\nvia @LanguageLog &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">`The idea of &#8220;necessary&#8221; or &#8220;necessity&#8221; is hard enough to define in one language, let alone match its nuances across languages as different as #Arabic and #English.\u00a0 Nonetheless, doing so enhances our understanding of the words in each of the #comparanda.`<\/p>\n<p>via @LanguageLog &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/1973870356097069453\">Oct 2, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>October 02, 2025 at 05:59PM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>`The idea of &#8220;necessary&#8221; or &#8220;necessity&#8221; is hard enough to define in one language, let alone match its nuances across languages as different as #Arabic and #English.\u00a0 Nonetheless, doing so enhances our understanding of the words in each of the #comparanda.` via @LanguageLog &#8211; &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers) Oct 2, 2025 from Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers October &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=114681\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">`The idea of &#8220;necessary&#8221; or &#8220;necessity&#8221; is hard enough to define in one language, let alone match its nuances across languages as different as #Arabic and #English.\u00a0 Nonetheless, doing so enhances our understanding of the words in each of the #comparanda.`<\/p>\n<p>via @LanguageLog &#8211;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-114681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114682,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114681\/revisions\/114682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114681"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=114681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}