{"id":1518,"date":"2005-07-15T13:54:51","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T18:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2005-07-13T12:55:24","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T17:55:24","slug":"weasel-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/15\/weasel-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Weasel Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been bugging me for YEARS!  Thank goodness I&#8217;m not the only one with this pet-peave. \ud83d\ude42 :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Email: &#8216;The word &#8217;email&#8217; or its variants such as &#8216;e-mail&#8217; properly describes a system of communication electronically. It does not denote a message. <b>So &#8220;I sent you an email&#8221; should more properly be &#8220;I sent you an email message.&#8221;<\/b> One sees this misuse very frequently in business correspondence and informal discussions. Its use reveals lazy thinking on the part of its users.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaselwords.com.au\/words.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Weasel Words<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been bugging me for YEARS! Thank goodness I&#8217;m not the only one with this pet-peave. \ud83d\ude42 : Email: &#8216;The word &#8217;email&#8217; or its variants such as &#8216;e-mail&#8217; properly describes a system of communication electronically. It does not denote a message. So &#8220;I sent you an email&#8221; should more properly be &#8220;I sent you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}