{"id":14273,"date":"2010-10-19T13:07:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T19:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=14273"},"modified":"2010-10-19T13:07:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T19:07:15","slug":"wherein-stephen-fry-puts-pedants-in-their-place-and-we-love-him-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/wherein-stephen-fry-puts-pedants-in-their-place-and-we-love-him-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein Stephen Fry Puts Pedants in Their Place and We Love Him for It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Do they ever yoke impossible words together for the sound-sex of it?” –Stephen Fry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We don’t believe they do, Mr Fry. Our knowledge of the execution of the written word is strong but not entirely kingly. We know there are places we could do better in being more “grammatically correct.” But, more often than not, we damn those ways in order to find new ways. <\/p>\n

We are not immune to pedantic qualities that live inside. We typically try to limit the chastising to our own incorrect usage. <\/p>\n

But now, most importantly, when friends turn up their noses and snidely accuse us of killing the English language, we no longer choose to smile and ignore their immovable imaginations.<\/p>\n

Now we will simply state, ‘Stephen Fry says you can kindly ‘fuck off’ with that.’ <\/p>\n

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Download:<\/strong> Here is the Fry essay on Language in it’s entirety<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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via october in whitechapel<\/a>, RogersCreations <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Do they ever yoke impossible words together for the sound-sex of it?” –Stephen Fry We don’t believe they do, Mr Fry. Our knowledge of the execution of the written word is strong but not entirely kingly. We know there are places we could do better in being more “grammatically correct.” But, more often than not, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,13,34],"tags":[3480,31,2313,3489,36,3487,3488],"class_list":["post-14273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation-art","category-books","category-grammar","tag-celebrity-awesome","tag-culture","tag-kinetic-typography","tag-pedants","tag-quotables","tag-stephen-fry","tag-take-that-grammar-nazis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14277,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273\/revisions\/14277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}