{"id":11793,"date":"2009-01-09T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2009\/01\/09\/is-it-a-real-word.html"},"modified":"2009-01-09T20:00:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T04:00:16","slug":"is-it-a-real-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2009\/01\/09\/is-it-a-real-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it a real word?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ta-Nehisi Coates talks with OED editor  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessesword.com\/\">Jesse Sheidlower<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/ask_the_expert_is_conversate_a_word.php\">whether \"conversate\" is a word<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I &lt;3 the OED.<\/p>\n<p>And dictionary editors in general.<\/p>\n<p>Lexicographer Erin McKean gave a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary.html\">talk<\/a> at TED in 2007 that covered some related topics, though I think I like Sheidlower's discussion of the issue better.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: Video with sound immediately starts playing if you follow the link to the McKean talk.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ta-Nehisi Coates talks with OED editor Jesse Sheidlower about whether &#8220;conversate&#8221; is a word. I And dictionary editors in general. Lexicographer Erin McKean gave a talk at TED in 2007&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictionaries","category-prescriptivism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}