{"id":753,"date":"2008-10-24T09:45:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T08:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/24\/optionulsory\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T09:45:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T08:45:05","slug":"optionulsory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=753","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; optionulsory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term <em>optionulsory<\/em> was coined by one of my classmates the other day to refer to things that are somewhere between optional and compulsory &#8211; in this case the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangor.ac.uk\/linguistics\/about\/seminars.php.en\">Linguistics Circle Research Seminars<\/a>. Linguistics postgrads are expected and encouraged to attend these seminars, but are not absolutely obliged to do so.<\/p>\n<p>I went to one of the seminars on Wednesday &#8211; quite an interesting talk on Spanish verbs which focused particularly on the preterite tense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term optionulsory was coined by one of my classmates the other day to refer to things that are somewhere between optional and compulsory &#8211; in this case the Linguistics Circle Research Seminars. Linguistics postgrads are expected and encouraged to attend these seminars, but are not absolutely obliged to do so. I went to one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","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=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}