{"id":1803,"date":"2009-08-25T10:43:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T17:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2009-08-25T10:43:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T17:43:55","slug":"other_matters_language_-_soph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/08\/other_matters_language_-_soph\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Matters: Language &#8212; &#8220;Sophomore&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the e-mail today came yet another news release using one of the favorite clich\u00c3\u00a9s of record company publicists. It announced the release of &#8220;the sophomore album&#8221; of a young saxophonist. A sophomore is a second-year student at a high school, college or university. You could look it up. The word is not a synonym for &#8220;second.&#8221; The saxophonist&#8217;s fourth release, I presume, will be his senior album, the fifth his post-graduate album, the sixth his post-doctoral album.<br \/>\nStrunk and White&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FElements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk%2Fdp%2F020530902X&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">The Elements of Style<\/a><\/em> is still available. Their 12th principle of composition is, &#8220;Use definite, specific, concrete language.&#8221; Please.<br \/>\nThis concludes today&#8217;s rant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the e-mail today came yet another news release using one of the favorite clich\u00c3\u00a9s of record company publicists. It announced the release of &#8220;the sophomore album&#8221; of a young saxophonist. A sophomore is a second-year student at a high school, college or university. You could look it up. The word is not a synonym [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}