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.\u00a0<\/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 and bubkis, 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 in the extended application of such expressions, as not knowing your ass from a hole in the ground is different from knowing 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.\u00a0 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":[33,1],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-general","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions\/1906"}],"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}]}}