{"id":59,"date":"2002-09-19T13:21:08-04:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-19T21:21:08+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=59"},"modified":"2002-09-19T13:21:08-04:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-19T21:21:08+00:00","slug":"if-i-see-this-in-your-messages-i-will-take-points-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/09\/19\/if-i-see-this-in-your-messages-i-will-take-points-off\/","title":{"rendered":"If I see this in your messages, I will take points&nbsp;off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>More on l33t, usage and grammar:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><q>To their dismay, teachers say that papers are being written with shortened words, improper capitalization and punctuation, and characters like &amp;, $ and @.<\/q> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/09\/19\/technology\/circuits\/19MESS.html\">Jennifer 8. [sic] Lee<\/a> in the <em>New York Times<\/em>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/02\/09\/19\/157234.shtml?tid=146\">Slashdot<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><q>Obviously, grammatical expertise wastes time and money.<\/q> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-web.com\/columns\/wideopen\/wideopen_2002-09.shtml\">99% of Proper Grammar is Obsolete<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2002\/09\/19.html#the_persistence_of_grammar\">Dive Into Mark<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><q>Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.<\/q> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojohaven.com\/fun\/spelling.html\">M. J. Shields<\/a> in <em>The Economist<\/em>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/\">Google<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More on l33t, usage and grammar: To their dismay, teachers say that papers are being written with shortened words, improper capitalization and punctuation, and characters like &amp;, $ and @. (Jennifer 8. [sic] Lee in the New York Times, via Slashdot) Obviously, grammatical expertise wastes time and money. (99% of Proper Grammar is Obsolete, via&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}