{"id":320,"date":"2011-07-31T23:04:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T04:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/?p=320"},"modified":"2018-11-06T02:33:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T07:33:58","slug":"when-crafting-a-mnemonic-rhyme-make-sure-to-rhyme-the-variable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/2011\/07\/31\/when-crafting-a-mnemonic-rhyme-make-sure-to-rhyme-the-variable\/","title":{"rendered":"When Crafting a Mnemonic Rhyme, Make Sure to Rhyme the Variable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person on the weather network just recited this piece of sailing lore.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Red sky at morning; sailor\u2019s warning<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem with this is that there are two variables, namely the time of day and the color of the sky. However because <em>warning<\/em> rhymes with <em>morning<\/em>, it focus on the time of day instead of the color. As a result, the color could end up getting substituted without changing anything, and thus ruining the mnemonic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBlue sky at morning; sailor\u2019s warning<br \/>\nPurple sky at morning; sailor\u2019s warning<br \/>\n\u2026\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mnemonic should rhyme the primary variable, for example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Morning sky be red; sailors be dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>(Of course in this specific case, the mnemonic actually is correct because the line she recited was part of a longer one in which the active variable is in fact the time of day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRed sky at night; sailor\u2019s delight.<br \/>\nRed sky at morning; sailor\u2019s warning.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> However if the quote was indeed just that one line, then it would need to be rewritten to focus on the active variable.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/tag\/advice\/\" rel=\"tag\">Advice<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/tag\/language\/\" rel=\"tag\">Language<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person on the weather network just recited this piece of sailing lore. Red sky at morning; sailor\u2019s warning The problem with this is that there are two variables, namely the time of day and the color of the sky. However because warning rhymes with morning, it focus on the time of day instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,40],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advice","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}