{"id":1573,"date":"2012-08-28T18:41:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T18:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2012-08-28T18:41:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T18:41:30","slug":"expressive-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/expressive-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Expressive dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I love about the English language is that it\u2019s so expressive. By changing your tone you can make words sound very different.<\/p>\n<p>But how can you do this when you\u2019re writing the words rather than speaking them? The Sound-Word Index is here to help! <\/p>\n<p>Two Royal College of Art graduates came up with the idea, and the site is now a handy reference for those trying to interpret digital meaning. An example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\/!!!!!\/ It can mean: Shock or really enthusiastic. For example: \u2018I have a new boyfriend!!!!!\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can submit your own words through <a href=\"http:\/\/ohhhhhhhhh.co.uk\/\">the website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I love about the English language is that it\u2019s so expressive. By changing your tone you can make words sound very different. But how can you do this when you\u2019re writing the words rather than speaking them? The Sound-Word Index is here to help! Two Royal College of Art graduates came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,44,1010],"tags":[51,40,83,44],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pronunciation","category-words","category-writing-2","tag-language","tag-language-acquisition","tag-pronunciation","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}