{"id":5476,"date":"2013-02-18T09:05:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T22:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=5476"},"modified":"2013-02-27T14:13:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T03:13:38","slug":"are-simple-messages-simplistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2013\/02\/are-simple-messages-simplistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Are simple messages simplistic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5483\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/simplistic_simple.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5483\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5483  \" alt=\"IQ of 134 means smart (simple) but maybe good at school (simplistic)\" src=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/simplistic_simple-300x55.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/simplistic_simple-300x55.gif 300w, https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/simplistic_simple-150x27.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simple and simplistic are not the same&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While\u00a0being closely related with the same root word, today&#8217;s pair of words are quite different &#8211; and understanding them can\u00a0be quite enlightening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">simple<\/span> <\/strong>[adjective]: basic; missing elaboration, ostentation, complication and subdivisions<br \/>\n<em>Basic arithmetic\u00a0is simple to write and calculate; quadratic equations are not so simple!<br \/>\nFollowing main roads is simpler than\u00a0maneuvering through side streets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In grammatical terms, simple means having only one clause without any subordinate clauses or modifiers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">simplistic<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0[adjective]: over simplified, missing information or depth<br \/>\n<em>Saying income is\u00a0the indicator of\u00a0career success is simplistic.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While\u00a0being closely related with the same root word, today&#8217;s pair of words are quite different &#8211; and understanding them can\u00a0be quite enlightening.\u00a0 simple [adjective]: basic; missing elaboration, ostentation, complication and subdivisions Basic arithmetic\u00a0is simple to write and calculate; quadratic equations are not so simple! Following main roads is simpler than\u00a0maneuvering through side streets. In grammatical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[297,119,972,1608],"class_list":["post-5476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-definition","tag-meaning","tag-simple","tag-simplisitc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5493,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions\/5493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}