{"id":30532,"date":"2012-09-21T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30532"},"modified":"2013-10-02T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T14:09:07","slug":"neologizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30532","title":{"rendered":"Neologizing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always wanted to create a new word for the English language [1].<\/p>\n

And I think that word is going to be “Inshgoogle” (pronounced\u00a0“Insh-GOO-gle”).<\/p>\n

It’s a corruption of the Arabic “Insh’allah”, meaning “If it’s Allah’s will”. \u00a0Its meaning, essentially, becomes “If my Google information is correct…”<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

[1] My ambition, in fact, was to leave a word or saying. \u00a0Now, I see my old remark “when I die, I want to be scattered over my hometown. \u00a0No, not cremated…” popping up here and there around the web, so some of the pressure is off. \u00a0Still, my ambition has now shifted to getting a new word in the OED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve always wanted to create a new word for the English language [1]. And I think that word is going to be “Inshgoogle” (pronounced\u00a0“Insh-GOO-gle”). It’s a corruption of the Arabic “Insh’allah”, meaning “If it’s Allah’s will”. \u00a0Its meaning, essentially, becomes “If my Google information is correct…” That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,37],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-30532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-language","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30535,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532\/revisions\/30535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}