{"id":814,"date":"2010-12-28T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T00:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=814"},"modified":"2010-12-28T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T00:40:09","slug":"stephen-fry-on-language-and-pedantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2010\/12\/stephen-fry-on-language-and-pedantry\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fry on language and pedantry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J7E-aoXLZGY\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mister Fry is a master of the Word. Personally, I am much like him in that I cringe at improper uses of words, grammar and syntax. I think that our society is not getting the linguistic education it should. But if people want to make &#8220;mistakes&#8221; then they should be allowed to, as long as they know why it&#8217;s &#8220;wrong&#8221;, and that their choice is conscious and informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mister Fry is a master of the Word. Personally, I am much like him in that I cringe at improper uses of words, grammar and syntax. I think that our society is not getting the linguistic education it should. But if people want to make &#8220;mistakes&#8221; then they should be allowed to, as long as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[508,507,55,506],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-d8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}