{"id":39579,"date":"2015-08-10T12:40:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T12:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/usage-absolutists-are-the-scalia-esque\/"},"modified":"2015-08-10T12:40:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T12:40:21","slug":"usage-absolutists-are-the-scalia-esque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/usage-absolutists-are-the-scalia-esque\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Usage absolutists are the Scalia-esque Originalists of the language-maven set. Their emphasis on \u201ctimeless\u201d grammatical truths, in opposition to most linguists\u2019 view of language as a living, changing thing, is at heart conservative; their fulminations about the grammatical violations perpetrated by the masses mask deeper anxieties about moral relativism and social turbulence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/07\/12\/strunk-and-white-s-macho-grammar-club0.html\">Mark Dery<\/a> in <i>The Daily Beast<\/i>. Strunk and White\u2019s Macho Grammar Club (via <a href=\"http:\/\/protoslacker.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">protoslacker<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usage absolutists are the Scalia-esque Originalists of the language-maven set. Their emphasis on \u201ctimeless\u201d grammatical truths, in opposition to most linguists\u2019 view of language as a living, changing thing, is at heart conservative; their fulminations about the grammatical violations perpetrated by the masses mask deeper anxieties about moral relativism and social turbulence. Mark Dery in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-39579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-ain","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}