{"id":306,"date":"2007-03-23T16:33:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T00:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/03\/23\/unwords\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T16:33:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T00:33:56","slug":"unwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/unwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>sprachgef\u00c3\u00bchl<\/strong> is a German word that means: an intuitive sense of what is linguistically appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my sprachgef\u00c3\u00bchl, the use of the word <em>disconnect<\/em> as a noun has become an agonizing insult to my ears. I have even coined a German word to express this pain:&nbsp;\u00a0<strong>wortschmerz<\/strong>. Feel free to use it, especially around people who use <em>disconnect<\/em> when they&#8217;re not talking about a toaster.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still trying to recall what word was previously used before the D word became fashionable. Disparity? Discrepancy? Divergence? Or how about gap?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve discoverd the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unwords.com\/unword\/cryiest.html\" target=\"_blank\">unwords.com<\/a>, where I found the word <strong>cryiest<\/strong>, which I like. As in &#8220;that&#8217;s the cryiest movie I&#8217;ve ever seen!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I know this makes me a hypocrite, but&nbsp;\u00a0 actually,&nbsp;\u00a0 according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordreference.com\/definition\/hypocrite\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> , I&#8217;m not. I just have a double standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sprachgef\u00c3\u00bchl is a German word that means: an intuitive sense of what is linguistically appropriate. Thanks to my sprachgef\u00c3\u00bchl, the use of the word disconnect as a noun has become an agonizing insult to my ears. I have even coined &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/unwords\/\">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":[7,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7t44M-unwords","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}