{"id":302,"date":"2015-02-06T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2015-02-06T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T19:30:10","slug":"whats-ruining-the-english-language-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Ruining the English Language Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-303\" src=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/destroyedWord-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"destroyedWord\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/destroyedWord-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/destroyedWord.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Or rather, what used to be? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/10-things-people-once-complained-would-ruin-the-english-1684240298\">There&#8217;s a nice compilation by Lauren Davis at I09<\/a> about various things that have been blamed\u00a0by descriptivists past for messing up English. \u00a0Now, I think we can all agree the the English tung<br \/>\nshoulde be written unmixt, cleane and pure, and that Shakespeare ruined everything\u00a0by using metaphors even if <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Your-Brain-on-Metaphors\/148495\/?cid=cr&amp;utm_source=cr&amp;utm_medium=en\">English makes no sense whatsoever without them<\/a>. \u00a0But some of these complaints seem a bit overblown, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=388\">if familiar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or rather, what used to be? \u00a0There&#8217;s a nice compilation by Lauren Davis at I09 about various things that have been blamed\u00a0by descriptivists past for messing up English. \u00a0Now, I think we can all agree the the English tung shoulde &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=302\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-gripery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qgvH-4S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}