{"id":529,"date":"2007-01-16T14:48:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T19:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2007-01-16T14:48:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T19:48:57","slug":"its-official-starbucks-has-killed-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2007\/01\/its-official-starbucks-has-killed-the-english-language\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s official: Starbucks has killed the English language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having already played Ms. Language person on the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/homemade-ravioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/archives\/000419.html\">less vs. fewer and correct usage<\/a> I&#8217;ve been paying more attention lately to how these common comparatives are used.<\/p>\n<p>There was an example of misuse so heinous on the evening news the other night that I&#8217;ve completely repressed the context.  It was Fox so a little leeway can be given for the generalized idiocy in any case.  But then came this morning.<\/p>\n<p>I had occasion to be at a Starbucks this morning and I found need for a napkin.  Printed on the light tan paper was a very admirable bit of marketing: made of 100% post-consumer recycled fiber.  Then came the knife: Less napkins. Less Waste.  Less napkins.  Less waste.<\/p>\n<p>I nearly screamed.  I know now just how Lynn Truss felt when <a href=\"http:\/\/eatsshootsandleaves.com\/eslex.html\">she stepped out of Victoria Station and saw the advertisement<\/a> for <span class=\"pubtitle\">Two Weeks [sic] Notice<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I give written language another 15 years before we&#8217;re back to the pre-Chaucer days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having already played Ms. Language person on the subject of less vs. fewer and correct usage I&#8217;ve been paying more attention lately to how these common comparatives are used. There was an example of misuse so heinous on the evening news the other night that I&#8217;ve completely repressed the context. It was Fox so a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}