{"id":5345,"date":"2007-06-27T17:27:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T22:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/2007\/06\/27\/too-damn-many-words\/"},"modified":"2007-06-27T17:27:57","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T22:27:57","slug":"too-damn-many-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/too-damn-many-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Too damn many words?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070615.wvocabulary0516\/BNStory\/Front\/home\">Lexicon Lost<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last spring, Gilles de Robien, France&#8217;s Education Minister, declared that schools in suburban Paris would teach more grammar and vocabulary to integrate immigrants and prevent future riots. The British Minister of State for Schools, Jim Knight, immediately called this Frenchie rot. He insisted that grammar and vocabulary are elitist, and therefore are what cause youth riots.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivivic<br \/>\nWould I could fathom thy matter specific<br \/>\nLustily proud in the ether capacious<br \/>\nStrongly resembling a gem carbonaceous.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via a <a href=\"http:\/\/rockstupid.blogspot.com\/\">pretentious windbag<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lexicon Lost: Last spring, Gilles de Robien, France&#8217;s Education Minister, declared that schools in suburban Paris would teach more grammar and vocabulary to integrate immigrants and prevent future riots. The British Minister of State for Schools, Jim Knight, immediately called this Frenchie rot. He insisted that grammar and vocabulary are elitist, and therefore are what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/too-damn-many-words\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Too damn many words?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1od","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}