{"id":1029,"date":"2014-03-07T20:18:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T01:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2014-03-07T20:18:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T01:18:06","slug":"words-mean-something-dammit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"Words Mean Something, Dammit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1030\" alt=\"betaTesting\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/betaTesting.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/betaTesting.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/betaTesting-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>As longtime readers know, <a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=850\">I&#8217;m basically a descriptivist<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=388\">when it comes to grammar<\/a>.\u00a0 But some things will not stand, and that includes the latest outrage on the English language perpetrated by Best Buy.\u00a0 Your precious blue shirts are not beta testing anything, Best Buy.\u00a0 Or if they are, then you&#8217;d better not be charging full price, since a beta test, by definition, comes prior to when something is ready for commercial release.\u00a0 It probably sounds wonderfully geeky and techy to someone in marketing, but remember &#8211; you&#8217;re supposed to be a firm that knows something about technology, and this kind of thing fills your potential customers with doubts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As longtime readers know, I&#8217;m basically a descriptivist when it comes to grammar.\u00a0 But some things will not stand, and that includes the latest outrage on the English language perpetrated by Best Buy.\u00a0 Your precious blue shirts are not beta testing anything, Best Buy.\u00a0 Or if they are, then you&#8217;d better not be charging full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-gripery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}