{"id":522,"date":"2009-12-04T14:41:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T14:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=522"},"modified":"2009-12-05T18:35:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T18:35:56","slug":"twittonary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/04\/twittonary\/","title":{"rendered":"Twittonary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/word-of-the-year-twitter\/\">posted<\/a> the news that \u2018Twitter\u2019 was made Word of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>So I thought it may be interesting to show how far its reach extends now:  there\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twittonary.com\/  \">Twittonary<\/a>, or a Twitter Dictionary, providing \u201cexplanations of Twitter related words\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The content of the dictionary is user-generated, and users can also vote on the entries and definitions submitted. A lot of the words seem to include some variety on the words <em>twitter <\/em>and <em>tweet<\/em>, such as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/twittonary.com\/word.php?word=beetweet\">beetweet<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/twittonary.com\/word.php?word=neweeter\">neweeter<\/a><\/em>. The president of the Global Language Monitor claimed language would evolve based on words from Twitter \u2013 let\u2019s hope we don\u2019t develop a language based purely on those two words!<\/p>\n<p>You probably know that a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tweet#Social_networking\">\u2018tweet\u2019<\/a> can be only 140 characters long, so the dictionary may be helpful to you in keeping your message short and sweet.<\/p>\n<p>It could also help you develop language skills &#8211; try tweeting short sentences like <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to the shop&#8221;<\/em> to get you used to writing the language you&#8217;re learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted the news that \u2018Twitter\u2019 was made Word of the Year. So I thought it may be interesting to show how far its reach extends now: there\u2019s a Twittonary, or a Twitter Dictionary, providing \u201cexplanations of Twitter related words\u201d. The content of the dictionary is user-generated, and users can also vote on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27,40,16,44],"tags":[451,46,25,452,450,31,448,449,401,44],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-hints-and-tips","category-language-acquisition","category-technology","category-words","tag-beetweet","tag-dictionary","tag-languages","tag-neweeter","tag-tweet","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-dictionary","tag-twittonary","tag-word-of-the-year","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","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=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}