{"id":656,"date":"2014-06-23T09:18:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T09:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2014-06-25T00:53:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T23:53:48","slug":"pound-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/pound-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Yep, that pretty much covers all eventualities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-19-18.26.11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-657\" src=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-19-18.26.11-926x1024.jpg\" alt=\"2014-06-19 18.26.11\" width=\"474\" height=\"524\" data-wp-pid=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-19-18.26.11-926x1024.jpg 926w, https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-19-18.26.11-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-19-18.26.11-724x800.jpg 724w, https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-19-18.26.11-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-19-18.26.11.jpg 1802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit:<\/strong> Someone on Facebook pointed out\u00a0there would be no items priced at exactly \u00a31, which had occurred to me too.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #4e5665;\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".g.1:3:1:$comment10100929799117280_10100929984046680:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".g.1:3:1:$comment10100929799117280_10100929984046680:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".g.1:3:1:$comment10100929799117280_10100929984046680:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0\"><span data-reactid=\".g.1:3:1:$comment10100929799117280_10100929984046680:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0\">It got me thinking about an interesting quirk of English on display here.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4e5665;\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".g.1:3:1:$comment10100929799117280_10100929984046680:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".g.1:3:1:$comment10100929799117280_10100929984046680:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".g.1:3:1:$comment10100929799117280_10100929984046680:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0\"><span data-reactid=\".g.1:3:1:$comment10100929799117280_10100929984046680:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0\">If you were to say &#8220;Some of the fish are blue&#8221; then that implies nothing about the colours of any other fish. Similarly for &#8220;Some of the fish are yellow&#8221;. But just con<\/span><\/span><span data-reactid=\".g.1:3:1:$comment10100929799117280_10100929984046680:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3\"><span data-reactid=\".g.1:3:1:$comment10100929799117280_10100929984046680:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0\"><span data-reactid=\".g.1:3:1:$comment10100929799117280_10100929984046680:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0\">join the sentences into &#8220;Some of the fish are blue and some of the fish are yellow&#8221; and suddenly it&#8217;s heavily implied that there are no red fish present. Not explicitly stated, but I would almost certainly read it that way and I guess others would too.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Edit: Someone on Facebook pointed out\u00a0there would be no items priced at exactly \u00a31, which had occurred to me too.\u00a0It got me thinking about an interesting quirk of English on display here. If you were to say &#8220;Some of the fish are blue&#8221; then that implies nothing about the colours of any other fish. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/pound-shop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yep, that pretty much covers all eventualities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}