{"id":1320,"date":"2020-09-11T16:11:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T20:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2020-09-11T18:52:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T22:52:27","slug":"words-of-the-week-de-facto-de-jure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2020\/09\/11\/words-of-the-week-de-facto-de-jure\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of the Week! de facto & de jure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Island<\/a>Recently, I ran across this usage from a 2018 article<\/a> in The Atlantic<\/em>:<\/p>\n

And like de jure segregation\u2014when the government legally engineered ghettos into existence\u2014de facto segregation continues to exacerbate wealth and racial inequality today.<\/em><\/p>\n

I often use de facto<\/em>, luckily in its correct sense as stated in the OED<\/a>, “in fact, in reality, in actual existence, force, or possession, as a matter of fact.”<\/p>\n

There’s a clear distinction in all of the terms referenced by the OED using the Latin preposition\u00a0de.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

For\u00a0de jure,\u00a0<\/em>it is a case of something being “according to law.” My example will get this post banned in China, but the Chinese occupation of Tibet constitutes a\u00a0de facto,\u00a0<\/em>but not a\u00a0de jure<\/em>, annexation of another nation.\u00a0 The same applies in Cyprus, where in 2005 I crossed a de facto<\/em> border between north and south, seeing the UN blue helmets try to maintain a ceasefire between the Turkish and Greek populations. Closer to home, many executive orders by our Presidents constitute similar de facto<\/em>, but not de jure<\/em>, changes to how our government functions.<\/p>\n

Look at the news: which recent events and social changes are likely to become de facto,\u00a0<\/em>but not de jure<\/em>, parts of our daily lives in the near future?<\/p>\n

Maybe you have some words or metaphors that puzzle you?\u00a0E-mail jessid-at-richmond-dot-edu with your nominees. See all of our Metaphors of the Month\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and Words of the Week\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons<\/a> en Espa\u00f1ol. Hay que practicarlo.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, I ran across this usage from a 2018 article in The Atlantic: And like de jure segregation\u2014when the government legally engineered ghettos into existence\u2014de facto segregation continues to exacerbate wealth and racial inequality today. I often use de facto, luckily in its correct sense as stated in the OED, “in fact, in reality, in … Continue reading Words of the Week! de facto & de jure<\/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":[2516,87402,87406,40197],"tags":[2522],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-writing","category-legal-writing","category-loan-word","category-vocabulary","tag-word-of-the-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcsCNV-li","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","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=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}