{"id":1599,"date":"2007-02-25T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T20:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2007\/02\/25\/statesman-invents-a-word\/"},"modified":"2007-02-25T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T20:16:49","slug":"statesman-invents-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/statesman-invents-a-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Statesman Invents a Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thechunk\/402468745\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"402468745_87886ae12a_m.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2007\/02\/402468745_87886ae12a_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\">Statesman<\/a> tends to be a punching bag around here and, with headlines like this one found on the front page yesterday, they&#8217;re going to have a hard time shaking that perception. They&#8217;re now inventing words just like the current President that we inflicted on the world.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure which language they&#8217;re using for this headline, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?va=minicity\">Webster tells me<\/a> that &#8220;minicity&#8221; isn&#8217;t a word in the English language. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/local\/02\/24\/24domain.html\">online version of the article<\/a> repeats the mistake. I&#8217;m too lazy to take a screen shot in case they change it. Who knows if they&#8217;ll correct it, but Google <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=minicity\">helpfully suggests<\/a> that maybe I meant &#8220;mini city&#8221; when I did a search. It doesn&#8217;t stop them from presenting the Statesman article as the second hit on the search for the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Statesman tends to be a punching bag around here and, with headlines like this one found on the front page yesterday, they&#8217;re going to have a hard time shaking that perception. They&#8217;re now inventing words just like the current President that we inflicted on the world. I&#8217;m not sure which language they&#8217;re using for <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/statesman-invents-a-word\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-pN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}