{"id":296,"date":"2004-04-30T23:03:13","date_gmt":"2004-05-01T06:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=296"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"a-little-tenser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2004\/04\/30\/a-little-tenser\/","title":{"rendered":"A little tenser?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still wasting my time. Although now I&#8217;m having fun! Look what I found! {{link http:\/\/tenser.typepad.com\/tenser_said_the_tensor\/ Tenser, said the Tensor}}, is a linguist&#8217;s blog. So I&#8217;ve been reading all the entries back to when it was started (I told you I was wasting time.) It&#8217;s quite interesting, actually; besides, I have reason to believe the author is interested in anime\/manga.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the really interesting link that came off that blog was the one to the {{link http:\/\/hcs.harvard.edu\/~golder\/dialect\/index.html Harvard Dialect Survey}}. It&#8217;s amazing to consider what people actually <i>say<\/i>. (Sadly, the researchers did not include &#8220;forte&#8221; or &#8220;scone&#8221; in their questions. *sigh*) One of the things I&#8217;ve always heard is that the use of the word &#8220;pop&#8221; to describe sweet carbonated drinks is more common in Canada than the States, and that &#8220;soda&#8221; is more popular in the USA. {{link http:\/\/hcs.harvard.edu\/~golder\/dialect\/staticmaps\/q_105.html One of the questions}} dealt with just that. Unfortunately, the survey was limited to the continental United States. Still&#8230; The map shows some interesting trends in regards to that. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Bobby should take a look at question 92, if nothing else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*sigh* I&#8217;m still wasting my time. Although now I&#8217;m having fun! Look what I found! {{link http:\/\/tenser.typepad.com\/tenser_said_the_tensor\/ Tenser, said the Tensor}}, is a linguist&#8217;s blog. So I&#8217;ve been reading all the entries back to when it was started (I told you I was wasting time.) It&#8217;s quite interesting, actually; besides, I have reason to believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}