{"id":1254,"date":"2020-06-19T10:01:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T14:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2020-06-19T10:06:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T14:06:48","slug":"word-of-the-week-loquacious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2020\/06\/19\/word-of-the-week-loquacious\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Week! Loquacious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/files\/2020\/06\/loquacious.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1256\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/files\/2020\/06\/loquacious.jpg\" alt=\"Blah Blah Blah\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a>Some time back, I considered the history of the term <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2020\/01\/23\/word-of-the-week-laconic\/\">laconic<\/a>. Today we meet its antithesis. It&#8217;s the stuff of Twitter: running one&#8217;s mouth constantly.<\/p>\n<p>I hate Twitter, incidentally. I hated it long before it became a cesspool for the worst possible ideas imaginable. But I&#8217;m loquacious in a different way: I don&#8217;t mind running on at the mouth a bit, when needed about a complex topic. Twitter, like social media generally, encourage shallow and small bits of discourse, ones disconnected from deeper meaning, often about vital and thorny subjects.<\/p>\n<p>I know educators use Twitter well, but to me, there&#8217;s already a lot of talk, and not enough listening, even in our circles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Loquacious&#8221; has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oed.com\/view\/Entry\/110281?redirectedFrom=loquacious&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not changed its meaning much<\/a> over the years. John Milton used our Latinate term just as we do today, for too much talking.<\/p>\n<p>Shall I be brief about a windy subject?<\/p>\n<p>One old usage, sadly labeled &#8220;poetic&#8221; and with a last recorded instance of 1888, relates to the chattering of birds.<\/p>\n<p>You know, twittering birds. Tweet tweet tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time back, I considered the history of the term laconic. Today we meet its antithesis. It&#8217;s the stuff of Twitter: running one&#8217;s mouth constantly. I hate Twitter, incidentally. I hated it long before it became a cesspool for the worst possible ideas imaginable. But I&#8217;m loquacious in a different way: I don&#8217;t mind running &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2020\/06\/19\/word-of-the-week-loquacious\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Word of the Week! Loquacious<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2516,87405,40197],"tags":[2522],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-writing","category-etymology","category-vocabulary","tag-word-of-the-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcsCNV-ke","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}