Some words mean nothing, others can mean anything, and some can mean either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Comments I saw somewhere yesterday about double negatives\u2014it was evidently aimed at people who don\u2019t know nothing\u2014made me think of a convenient word that can mean and replace both anything and nothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some people might not know<\/em> diddly-squat about such words, in which case they would also know<\/em> diddly-squat about such words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The function of diddly-squat can, of course, be performed by things such as shit<\/em> and bubkis<\/em>, those also being able to replace both anything and nothing, depending upon whether the sense of the expression is negative or positive, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Care is required, however, in the extended application of such expressions, as knowing <\/em>your ass from a hole in the ground is not the same as not knowing<\/em> your ass from a hole in the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And now back to our regular programming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some words mean nothing, others can mean anything, and some can mean either. Comments I saw somewhere yesterday about double negatives\u2014it was evidently aimed at people who don\u2019t know nothing\u2014made me think of a convenient word that can mean and replace both anything and nothing. Some people might not know diddly-squat about such words, in … Continue reading “Don\u2019t know nothing? Get help from diddly-squat”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[309,160],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","tag-diddly-squat","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions\/2121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}