{"id":124,"date":"2003-10-07T17:15:25","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T21:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/10\/07\/law-perfesser-talk\/"},"modified":"2003-10-07T17:15:25","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T21:15:25","slug":"law-perfesser-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/10\/07\/law-perfesser-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Perfesser Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a151'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Law profs seem to be into the word &#8220;fungible&#8221;.  I first heard it used aloud by one here about a year ago.  I have a vivid visual memory of where I was &#8211; holy shit!  someone said that out loud!  y&#8217;all folks is fancy here!  better look that one up!<\/p>\n<p>I was chitchatting with another professor just now as I finished fixing her computer (hello Welchia my old friend).  She told me she&#8217;s been using the machine in class for the first time this year; powerpoint presentations and whatnot.  I asked her how the kids were liking it &mdash; she said they liked it, but she was a bit put off by their eyes being glued to the screen.  That it felt like they weren&#8217;t paying attention to <i>her<\/i> anymore.  &#8220;I could take my shirt off and nobody would notice!  It makes me feel kind of fungible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they pick it up in contract law or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investorwords.com\/cgi-bin\/getword.cgi?2132\">something<\/a>?  Ah, OED sez it &#8220;belongs to Civil Law and to the general theory of Jurisprudence&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law profs seem to be into the word &#8220;fungible&#8221;. I first heard it used aloud by one here about a year ago. I have a vivid visual memory of where I was &#8211; holy shit! someone said that out loud! y&#8217;all folks is fancy here! better look that one up! I was chitchatting with another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}