{"id":12489,"date":"2009-10-28T08:16:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T15:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2009\/10\/28\/in-which-i-appear-in-the-teleg.html"},"modified":"2018-01-31T00:42:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T08:42:30","slug":"in-which-i-appear-in-the-teleg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2009\/10\/28\/in-which-i-appear-in-the-teleg\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I appear in the Telegraph, sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The <cite>Telegraph<\/cite> recently featured a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/news\/6408927\/Internet-rules-and-laws-the-top-10-from-Godwin-to-Poe.html\">top 10 Internet \"laws\"<\/a>, starting of course with Godwin's Law.<\/p>\r\n<p>Sure enough, there at #4 is Skitt's Law, a.k.a. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muphry's_law\">Muphry's Law<\/a> (sic), a.k.a. McKean's Law, a.k.a. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1999\/04\/11\/hhhyphen-comments\/\">Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>Yay! I'm very slightly partially Internet famous for having independently coined a saying not too many years after the first recorded time that someone else said the same thing!<\/p>\r\n<p>(And, most likely, for having come up with a catchy name for it. I suspect if I had just called it Hartman's Law, the Internet-famous linguists who've referred to it would've gone with McKean's Law, since she's much better-known than I am. Then again, it appears to have been Vardibidian who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/04\/16\/2783.html\">told the linguists<\/a> about my version in 2005, so maybe if I had hired a publicist back in '99, I would've won the naming war.)<\/p>\r\n<p>(As for the <cite>Telegraph<\/cite> article, my other favorite law in their list is <a href=\"http:\/\/rationalwiki.com\/wiki\/Pommer%27s_Law\">Pommer's Law<\/a>: \"A person's mind can be changed by reading information on the internet. The nature of this change will be: From having no opinion to having a wrong opinion.\")<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph recently featured a list of top 10 Internet &#8220;laws&#8221;, starting of course with Godwin&#8217;s Law. Sure enough, there at #4 is Skitt&#8217;s Law, a.k.a. Muphry&#8217;s Law (sic), a.k.a&#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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laws"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489","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=12489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16956,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions\/16956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}