{"id":5051,"date":"2003-11-11T06:55:51","date_gmt":"2003-11-11T13:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2003-11-11T06:55:51","modified_gmt":"2003-11-11T13:55:51","slug":"all_your_dicton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/11\/all_your_dicton.html","title":{"rendered":"All your dictonary are belong to us!"},"content":{"rendered":"

McDonald’s seems to have prevailed in turning dictionaries from descriptive to descriptive-of-only-what-we-want<\/a>, by getting Merriam-Webster to drop the term “McJobs” <\/a>— at least from its list of new words in the new edition of the dictionary.<\/p>\n

\"McDictionary\"<\/center><\/p>\n

I’m torqued by McDonald’s here. I’m really torqued at M-W.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

McDonald’s seems to have prevailed in turning dictionaries from descriptive to descriptive-of-only-what-we-want, by getting Merriam-Webster to drop the term “McJobs” — at least from its list of new words in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5056,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/10\/shooting_the_me.html","url_meta":{"origin":5051,"position":0},"title":"Shooting the messenger","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Nov-03 6:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"Dictionaries describe language as it is used, balancing the tensions of \"rules\" and \"reality.\" McDonald's needs to consider that, as it has a conniption over the McJob entry in the...","rel":"","context":"In "ZT & PC"","block_context":{"text":"ZT & PC","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/zt-pc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5014,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/17\/mcjobs_the_deno.html","url_meta":{"origin":5051,"position":1},"title":"McJobs, the Denouement","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 17-Nov-03 8:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"After the Merriam-Websters McJobs flurry (not to be confused with a McFlurry) of a week ago seems to be dying down, I got a trackback from the Swedish site that...","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11185,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/nice_dictionary_you_got_t.html","url_meta":{"origin":5051,"position":2},"title":"Nice dictionary you got there — be a shame if somethin’ were to happen to it","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Mar-07 6:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"McDonald's has a problem with the Oxford English Dictionary. 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