{"id":44018,"date":"2019-08-15T10:11:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=44018"},"modified":"2019-08-15T10:12:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:12:22","slug":"reductio-ad-the-absurdum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=44018","title":{"rendered":"Reductio ad THE absurdum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Boren, \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2019\/08\/14\/ohio-state-university-wants-trademark-its-favorite-word\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Ohio State University wants to trademark its favorite word: \u2018The\u2019<\/a>\", WaPo 8\/14\/2019:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ohio State is serious about calling itself \u201cThe\u201d Ohio State University. The grammatical article is right there on many of the school\u2019s seal, logos and signs. Now the university has gotten so serious about that three-letter word that it has sought to trademark it. [&#8230;]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cLike other institutions, Ohio State works to vigorously protect the university\u2019s brand and trademarks,\u201d Chris Davey, a spokesman for the university, said in a statement to the Columbus Dispatch. \u201cThese assets hold significant value, which benefits our students and faculty and the broader community by supporting our core academic mission of teaching and research.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Boren, \"The Ohio State University wants to trademark its favorite word: \u2018The\u2019\", WaPo 8\/14\/2019: Ohio State is serious about calling itself \u201cThe\u201d Ohio State University. The grammatical article is right there on many of the school\u2019s seal, logos and signs. Now the university has gotten so serious about that three-letter word that it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-the-law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44022,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44018\/revisions\/44022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}