{"id":2227,"date":"2009-06-09T21:23:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T05:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2009-06-09T21:23:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T05:23:23","slug":"word-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/word-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/word-fever.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2229\" title=\"word-fever\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/word-fever-300x179.jpg?resize=300%2C179\" alt=\"word-fever\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/word-fever.jpg?resize=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/word-fever.jpg?w=395&amp;ssl=1 395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to some website called Global Language Monitor, the English language will add its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/06\/09\/million.words\/index.html?eref=rss_latest\" target=\"_blank\">millionth word<\/a> sometime on Wednesday. I&#8217;m predicting it will be a stupid one.<\/p>\n<p>Other language experts think it&#8217;s impossible to count the number of words in any language. Sarah Thomason, president of the Linguistic Society of America and a linguistics professor at the University of Michigan, calls the million-word count a <em>&#8220;sexy idea&#8221;<\/em> that is <em>&#8220;all hype and no substance.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ugh! I hate her choice of words! Why is this woman a linguistics professor? Sarah, please don&#8217;t use &#8220;sexy&#8221; in this manner! Just say &#8220;appealing.&#8221; Next thing you know, she&#8217;ll be smitten by something epic.<\/p>\n<p>If you love (and hate) words, go and check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordnik.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wordnik<\/a>.&nbsp;\u00a0 It&#8217;s a dictionary but much more fun and useful. It gives examples of a word in several contexts, definitions, synonyms, even a pronunciation feature.<\/p>\n<p>Wordnik also has a short list of &#8220;recently viewed&#8221; words, and &#8220;new pronunciations.&#8221; Among the latter is the word <strong>cunt<\/strong>, which its sophomoric users evidently think is fun to hear out loud.&nbsp;\u00a0 Sure enough, it is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to some website called Global Language Monitor, the English language will add its millionth word sometime on Wednesday. I&#8217;m predicting it will be a stupid one. Other language experts think it&#8217;s impossible to count the number of words in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/word-fever\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[215,612,1102],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-zV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}