{"id":2647,"date":"2010-04-29T20:41:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2010-04-29T20:41:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:41:47","slug":"spelling_doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2647","title":{"rendered":"Spelling Doesn&#8217;t Always Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>Times <\/i>has an amusing story about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/29\/fashion\/29twitter.html\">self-appointed grammar police are patrolling the Twitterverse<\/a> for blatant violations of proper spelling and usage. It probably wouldn&#8217;t surprise most of my readers if I told you that a screeching, knuckle-rapping grammarian lurks just beneath my calm and affable exterior. My teeth involuntarily grind together when I encounter a sentence that uses &#8220;your&#8221; when the author really means &#8220;you&#8217;re.&#8221; A little vein in forehead pulses whenever I encounter the word &#8220;irregardless.&#8221; In another era, I might have been a much-despised bachelor English teacher at a grim English boarding school. <\/p>\n<p>This is all to say that I have some sympathy for the cause of these grammar cops, even though I think their efforts might be needlessly confrontational. Our national literacy levels won&#8217;t plummet if someone posts a badly written tweet. There are enough really talented writers on Twitter to keep the general readability of the format pretty high. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times has an amusing story about how self-appointed grammar police are patrolling the Twitterverse for blatant violations of proper spelling and usage. It probably wouldn&#8217;t surprise most of my readers if I told you that a screeching, knuckle-rapping grammarian lurks just beneath my calm and affable exterior. My teeth involuntarily grind together when I <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2647' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-GH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}