{"id":583,"date":"2009-10-07T21:25:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T02:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2009-10-07T21:25:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T02:25:50","slug":"not-necessarily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"Not Necessarily"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s not a big deal, but some people have a habit of throwing the word “necessarily” into odd places in a sentence.<\/p>\n

“We wouldn’t necessarily want to be disemboweled by a grizzly bear, so we’re bringing bear repellant.”<\/p>\n

“Necessarily” there doesn’t really mean anything that a dictionary could help you understand. But listeners usually just let it go.<\/p>\n

A biting example of not letting it go comes from the always illuminating and entertaining Britannica blog<\/a>. Apparently, Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t think that Roman Polanski should go to jail. After her defense of him, she apparently said:<\/p>\n

“Would I want my 14-year-old having sex with somebody? Not necessarily.”<\/p>\n

Britannica blogger says:<\/p>\n

“I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think how it might come to be a matter of necessity, but it is comforting \u00e2\u20ac\u201c though perhaps not to that particular 14-year-old \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that Ms. Goldberg can at least conceive of circumstances in which she would not want her child to have sex. Being drugged beforehand by a middle-aged gargoyle might qualify, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know.”<\/p>\n

[Incidentally, the image at the top doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with this blog post.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not a big deal, but some people have a habit of throwing the word “necessarily” into odd places in a sentence. “We wouldn’t necessarily want to be disemboweled by a grizzly bear, so we’re bringing bear repellant.” “Necessarily” there doesn’t really mean anything that a dictionary could help you understand. But listeners usually just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-people","category-languagelit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}