{"id":339,"date":"2009-09-23T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/?p=335"},"modified":"2009-09-23T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T15:30:00","slug":"ill-be-using-the-wrong-word-momentarily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/ill-be-using-the-wrong-word-momentarily\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll be using the wrong word momentarily."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m listening to The Time Traveler’s Wife audiobook, and I noticed a character misused the word “momentarily.”\u00a0 This is one of my pet peeves — “I’ll be with you momentarily” is wrong unless you mean, “I’ll be with you for a moment, and then I’ll be gone again<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Anyway, now I’m wondering, did the author (Audrey Niffenegger) use the word wrong, or did the character<\/em> use it wrong?\u00a0 If it was the character, then the author was astutely observing that people use that word wrong all the time, and her characters should be no exception.\u00a0 But in a way that’s worse, because it reflects poorly on our culture’s literacy.\u00a0 So I don’t know who to be mad at, Audrey Niffenegger, or society!<\/p>\n

On a different note, this is the second time I’ve read this book, and between readings I read The Odyssey.\u00a0 It turns out that there are quite a few references to The Odyssey in The Time Traveler’s Wife, and I totally missed them the first time!\u00a0 They aren’t crucial to the story or anything, but I enjoyed “getting” them this time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m listening to The Time Traveler’s Wife audiobook, and I noticed a character misused the word “momentarily.”\u00a0 This is one of my pet peeves — “I’ll be with you momentarily” is wrong unless you mean, “I’ll be with you for a moment, and then I’ll be gone again.” Anyway, now I’m wondering, did the author […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}