{"id":811,"date":"2007-05-14T03:29:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T09:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/14\/linguistic-hit-list-part-iii\/"},"modified":"2013-08-14T10:29:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T15:29:35","slug":"linguistic-hit-list-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"Linguistic Hit List, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m starting to find my power, here.\u00a0\u00a0 A few years ago, I demanded that “bloggy” and all derivatives thereunto appertaining be excised from the language<\/a>.\u00a0 I haven’t seen it much lately.\u00a0 It is a sweet victory indeed, and I claim all credit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And while my recent demands for the extermination of “Internets”,”Truthy\/truthiness”, “Dee di deeeee”, “Hel-looooo” and “<\/em>It Is What It Is” are still developing, I feel it important to add to the hit list.<\/div>\n
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To “take (something) to the next level” is the next victim of my one-man linguistic purge.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Don’t say it.\u00a0 Don’t tolerate others saying it.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Leave it alone.<\/div>\n
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That is all.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m starting to find my power, here.\u00a0\u00a0 A few years ago, I demanded that “bloggy” and all derivatives thereunto appertaining be excised from the language.\u00a0 I haven’t seen it much lately.\u00a0 It is a sweet victory indeed, and I claim all credit.\u00a0 And while my recent demands for the extermination of “Internets”,”Truthy\/truthiness”, “Dee di deeeee”, […]<\/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":[260],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-language","tag-linguistic-hit-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37834,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/37834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}