{"id":10474,"date":"2007-03-26T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/03\/26\/10474.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:24","slug":"book-report-zounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/03\/26\/book-report-zounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Zounds!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was alternately amused and disappointed in Mark Dunn&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holtzbrinckpublishers.com\/stmartins\/search\/SearchBookDisplay.asp?BookKey=1613478\">Zounds! A Browser&#8217;s Dictionary of Interjections<\/a>. It has a lot of fun stuff (including cartoons by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sergioaragones.com\/\">Sergio Aragon&eacute;s<\/a>, who is evidently still alive), but a lot of omissions and errors, as well. Mr. Dunn does acknowledge the magnificent contributions <I>The Simpsons<\/I> has made to our interjectional zeitgeist, but then does not mention C. Montgomery Burns in the entry for <I>excellent<\/I>. In my experience, almost any time that word is used interjectionally, it is done in the Mr. Burns voice, and means something like <I>my evil plan is coming to fruition.<\/I> Used in jest, of course. Yep.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was alternately amused and disappointed in Mark Dunn&#8217;s Zounds! A Browser&#8217;s Dictionary of Interjections. It has a lot of fun stuff (including cartoons by Sergio Aragon&eacute;s, who is evidently still alive), but a lot of omissions and errors, as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17987,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions\/17987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}