{"id":32,"date":"2005-02-04T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-05T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2005-02-04T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-05T02:52:00","slug":"a-plea-to-wordsmiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"A plea to wordsmiths…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Come on, people. If your job involves using English professionally, take some time to learn it. In particular:<\/p>\n

– “Begging the question” does not<\/i> mean “implying\/requiring that the question be asked”
\n– “Schizophrenia” is not<\/i> having multiple personalities
\n– “Enormity” does not<\/i> mean “great size”<\/p>\n

When you use words wrongly, it just confuses and annoys those of us who employ the correct usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Come on, people. If your job involves using English professionally, take some time to learn it. In particular: – “Begging the question” does not mean “implying\/requiring that the question be asked” – “Schizophrenia” is not having multiple personalities – “Enormity” does not mean “great size” When you use words wrongly,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}