{"id":19306,"date":"2020-06-09T20:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T20:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19306"},"modified":"2020-06-09T20:45:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T20:45:20","slug":"temporal-imprecision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19306","title":{"rendered":"Temporal Imprecision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I saw an interesting usage in a discussion on Facebook in which someone wrote that they last did something back in &#8220;19 mumbly mumble&#8221;. It seems they didn&#8217;t want to be more precise about the year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard people doing this in speech before, mumbling the year they don&#8217;t want others to know, but I think this is the first time I&#8217;ve seen it used in writing like this.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a linguistic name for temporal imprecision like this?<\/p>\n<p>Does this happen in other languages? If so, how?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I saw an interesting usage in a discussion on Facebook in which someone wrote that they last did something back in &#8220;19 mumbly mumble&#8221;. It seems they didn&#8217;t want to be more precise about the year. I&#8217;ve heard people doing this in speech before, mumbling the year they don&#8217;t want others to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19306"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19311,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19306\/revisions\/19311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}