{"id":341814,"date":"2010-02-19T13:39:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2010-02-19T13:39:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:39:58","slug":"language-and-meta-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/341814","title":{"rendered":"Language and meta-language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or maybe it should be text and meta-text. Anyhow, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.users.drew.edu\/jmuccigr\/index.html\">John D. Muccigrosso<\/a> wrote to point out something that&#8217;s obvious in retrospect, namely that all those pages that say <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?as_q=%22this+page+intentionally+left+blank%22\">&#8220;This page intentionally left blank&#8221;<\/a> are thereby not, in fact, left blank.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-2128\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In looking for examples, I discovered that the earliest example of this that Google Books can find seems to have been published <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?lr=&amp;as_brr=0&amp;q=%22this+page+intentionally+left+blank%22&amp;btnG=Search+Books&amp;as_drrb_is=b&amp;as_minm_is=1&amp;as_miny_is=1500&amp;as_maxm_is=1&amp;as_maxy_is=1930\">around 1922<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is this<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an artefact of the scanning, indexing, or searching methods used?<\/li>\n<li>the result of a change in wording, with the same idea expressed with different words in earlier times?<\/li>\n<li>a genuine cultural innovation, so that before 1922, intentionally-blank pages were simply left blank without any self-identifying advice to the reader?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At some point, Federal regulations <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=LK08AAAAIAAJ&amp;q=%22this+page+intentionally+left+blank%22&amp;dq=%22this+page+intentionally+left+blank%22&amp;cd=9\">seem to have imposed such a requirement<\/a> &#8212; presumably on certain classes of government documents, though I can&#8217;t tell exactly from the &#8220;snippet view&#8221; at the link just provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or maybe it should be text and meta-text. Anyhow, John D. Muccigrosso wrote to point out something that&#8217;s obvious in retrospect, namely that all those pages that say &#8220;This page intentionally left blank&#8221; are thereby not, in fact, left blank. In looking for examples, I discovered that the earliest example of this that Google Books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}