{"id":531,"date":"2011-01-11T21:07:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T05:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nothingtoreadhere.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2011-01-11T21:07:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T05:07:19","slug":"the-short-and-long-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"The short and long of it"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I care too much about words, in case that hasn’t been made clear by my previous posts.\u00a0 Well friends, today is a special day as I have found an entire category of words that I really dislike.\u00a0 Admittedly, the category only has two words in it so far, but it’s a category nonetheless.\u00a0 For more information on my discovery, please meet me over at paragraph two.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with “master of ceremonies,” shall we?\u00a0 What’s wrong with that?\u00a0 Nothing, although it would sound weird to me if someone said that whole phrase instead of the much more common “MC.”\u00a0 But I go from understanding to angry when “MC” turns into “emcee.”\u00a0 In all seriousness, what the fuck is that about?\u00a0 We’re shortening it to its initials, but then elongating it to a word that spells out the sounds of those initials?\u00a0 Why in the world would we do that?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oh, and guess who might be at the same party as the master of ceremonies: the frickin’ deejay.\u00a0 Yep, same thing going on here.\u00a0 “Emcee” and “deejay” are actual words, and reasonable or not, that really bothers me.\u00a0 If this abbreviation elongation is such a good idea, then why aren’t we turning “M.O.” into “emmo?” Are we eventually going to “elloell” while watching “teevee?”<\/p>\n

The idea of stretching out shortened versions of words or terms makes no sense to me whatsoever.\u00a0 Come on, English, you’re better than that.\u00a0 Remember, I want to be moved by words and not pissed off by them. Sorry, “peeode.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I care too much about words, in case that hasn’t been made clear by my previous posts.\u00a0 Well friends, today is a special day as I have found an entire category of words that I really dislike.\u00a0 Admittedly, the category only has two words in it so far, but it’s a category nonetheless.\u00a0 For more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[148,147,146],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abbreviations","tag-deejay","tag-emcee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}