{"id":143166,"date":"2015-07-31T17:06:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T17:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/31\/some-of-my-favourite-linguistic-developments\/"},"modified":"2015-07-31T17:06:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T17:06:59","slug":"some-of-my-favourite-linguistic-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/31\/some-of-my-favourite-linguistic-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of my favourite linguistic developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/toddmonotony.tumblr.com\/post\/123366314998\" target=\"_blank\">toddmonotony<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2018Is that a thing?\u2019 for\u00a0\u2018does that exist?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Deliberate omission of grammar to show e.g. defeatedness, bewilderment, fury. As seen in Tumblr\u2019s\u00a0\u2018what is this I don\u2019t even\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Because [noun]\u2019. As in\u00a0\u2018we couldn\u2019t have our picnic in the meadow because wasps.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Use of kerning to indicate strong bewilderment, i.e. double-spaced letters usually denoting\u00a0\u2018what is happening?\u2019 This one is really interesting because it doesn\u2019t really translate well to speech. It\u2019s something people have come up with that uses the medium of text over the internet as a <i>new<\/i> way of communicating instead of just a transcript of speech or a quicker way to send postal letters.<\/p>\n<p>Just the general playing around with sentence structure and still being able to be understood. One of my favourites of these is the\u00a0\u2018subject: *verbs* \/ object: *is verb*\u2019 couplet, as in:<\/p>\n<p>Beekeeper: *keeps bees*<br \/>Bees: *is keep*<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>Me: *holds puppy*<br \/>Puppy: *is hold*<\/p>\n<p>I just love how this all develops organically with no deciding body, and how we all understand and adapt to it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>toddmonotony: \u2018Is that a thing?\u2019 for\u00a0\u2018does that exist?\u2019 Deliberate omission of grammar to show e.g. defeatedness, bewilderment, fury. As seen in Tumblr\u2019s\u00a0\u2018what is this I don\u2019t even\u2019. \u2018Because [noun]\u2019. As in\u00a0\u2018we couldn\u2019t have our picnic in the meadow because wasps.\u2019 Use of kerning to indicate strong bewilderment, i.e. double-spaced letters usually denoting\u00a0\u2018what is happening?\u2019 This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/31\/some-of-my-favourite-linguistic-developments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some of my favourite linguistic developments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[677,4100,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}