{"id":107,"date":"2007-12-15T17:27:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T21:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2007-12-15T17:27:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T21:27:01","slug":"i-weep-for-our-language-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/15\/i-weep-for-our-language-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I weep for our language (part 2)&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s interesting, from a <a href=http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/entertainment\/movies\/ny-etsecw5498476dec14,0,3426484.story><em>Newsday <\/em>review of <i>The Kite Runner<\/i> film<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Kite Runner&#8221; is the latest in a spate of smash bestsellers that have been transferred to the screen with a cautiousness usually reserved for the conveyance of holy relics and eggs. It&#8217;s generation-spanning plot combines one of the season&#8217;s favorite themes (the guileful acts of children) with one of its trendiest (turmoil in Afghanistan). And it premieres on the heels of nettlesome publicity involving stage-parent outrage and threats of bodily harm targeted at its youngest stars. &#8230; Like it&#8217;s author, &#8220;The Kite Runner&#8217;s&#8221; morose protagonist is the son of a Kabul diplomat who relocates to California as the Russians begin their incursions into Afghanistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I deleted one paragraph in the middle, but in the span of five sentences, Jan Stuart manages to use the correct &#8220;its&#8221; twice and the incorrect one twice, even though every instance called for the same word (&#8220;its&#8221; without its apostrophe). This has to be one of the easiest grammatical rules to remember, and I see it screwed up all the freaking time. All Stuart had to do was remember <a href=http:\/\/www.hrwiki.org\/index.php\/local_news>Strong Bad&#8217;s helpful song<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>If you want it to be possessive, it&#8217;s just &#8220;I-T-S.&#8221; But, if it&#8217;s supposed to be a contraction then it&#8217;s &#8220;I-T-apostrophe-S,&#8221; &#8230; scalawag.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s interesting, from a Newsday review of The Kite Runner film: &#8220;The Kite Runner&#8221; is the latest in a spate of smash bestsellers that have been transferred to the screen with a cautiousness usually reserved for the conveyance of holy relics and eggs. It&#8217;s generation-spanning plot combines one of the season&#8217;s favorite themes (the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[847],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-grammar","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}