{"id":174,"date":"2008-03-12T22:50:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T02:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2008-03-12T22:50:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T02:50:51","slug":"if-youre-going-to-volunteer-to-be-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re going to volunteer to be on tv&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; at least get <em>close<\/em> to proper English.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m far from being an English major.\u00c2\u00a0 My writing style is proof of that &#8211; can&#8217;t spell to save my life, misuse commas all the time, and make liberal use of &#8220;-&#8221; and &#8220;&#8230;&#8221; to cover up my inability to form correct sentences.\u00c2\u00a0 (Not a word from &#8216;the&#8217; grammar Nazi please)\u00c2\u00a0 But here are some things I <em>do<\/em> know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The truck did not spin out into the &#8216;medium&#8217; &#8211; it&#8217;s called a &#8216;median&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use the word &#8220;irregardless&#8221; &#8211; just say &#8220;without no regard&#8221; and be proud of your double-negative heritage instead of trying to sound smart.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use the word &#8216;moot&#8217; (and it&#8217;s <em>moot<\/em> not <em>mute<\/em>) &#8211; you don&#8217;t actually understand the meaning of the word<\/li>\n<li>Stop trying to speak text &#8211; the next person that says &#8220;Loll&#8221; to my face may get hit.\u00c2\u00a0 The only exception to this rule is &#8220;Berb&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the subject of texting&#8230; if you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2008\/03\/when_lampposts_attack.html\" title=\"When lampposts attack\" target=\"_blank\">walking into lampposts<\/a>, just throw your phone in the river.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re not, but you still abbreviate everything&#8230; throw it in the river.\u00c2\u00a0 Seriously&#8230; there should be a &#8220;three letter rule&#8221; &#8211; if you&#8217;re not saving at least three letters per word, don&#8217;t do it.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;y r u procrastin8ing 2&#8221; is not acceptable (acceptable, not <em>exceptable<\/em>) it takes a normal person more time to translate what you&#8217;re saying in their head than you save.<\/p>\n<p>And now that I&#8217;ve opened a can of stupid&#8230; for the love of all that is holy learn the difference in these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>where <em>vs<\/em> wear<\/li>\n<li>its <em>vs <\/em>it&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>there <em>vs <\/em>they&#8217;re <em>vs <\/em>their<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ok I&#8217;m done &#8230; my brain hurts just thinking about all the stupid.\u00c2\u00a0 Just remember:\u00c2\u00a0 half the world population has below average intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; at least get close to proper English.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m far from being an English major.\u00c2\u00a0 My writing style is proof of that &#8211; can&#8217;t spell to save my life, misuse commas all the time, and make liberal use of &#8220;-&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}