{"id":4699,"date":"2019-08-14T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T04:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2019-08-16T16:53:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T11:23:26","slug":"thats-the-word-for-it-profluent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/14\/thats-the-word-for-it-profluent\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s the Word For it: Profluent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"4700\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/14\/thats-the-word-for-it-profluent\/profluent\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/profluent.png?fit=560%2C315&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"560,315\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"profluent\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/profluent.png?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/profluent.png?fit=560%2C315&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4700\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/profluent.png?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/profluent.png?w=560&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/profluent.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 85vw, 560px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This word has Middle English and Latin roots and has to do with flow. You could use the word to describe music or a piece of writing. Here&#8217;s an example of how the word can be used.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A few years later, when I learned that Jayne Anne founded the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark, I had to apply. She was the program\u2019s director, and also taught fiction workshops. I loved being in her classes. We read <em>The Bluest Eye<\/em>\u00a0by Toni Morrison and\u00a0<em>Fat City\u00a0<\/em>by Leonard Gardner, and she showed us the songs of their lines.\u00a0<em>Lines<\/em> was the word she used to describe sentences. No matter their construction, sentences were to be linear and <strong>profluent<\/strong>. Subject, verb, object.&#8221;- Nick Ripatrazone, <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/is-line-editing-a-lost-art\/\">Is Line Editing a Lost Art?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This word has Middle English and Latin roots and has to do with flow. You could use the word to describe music or a piece of writing. Here&#8217;s an example of how the word can be used. &#8220;A few years later, when I learned that Jayne Anne founded the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark, I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/14\/thats-the-word-for-it-profluent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That&#8217;s the Word For it: Profluent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[251],"tags":[312],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7vAZr-1dN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4503,"url":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/01\/thats-the-word-for-it-ineffable\/","url_meta":{"origin":4699,"position":0},"title":"That's the Word for It- Ineffable","date":"February 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a\u00a0new column every week where we talk about one word that catches our fancy. 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