{"id":7569,"date":"2004-02-23T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-24T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/23\/7569\/"},"modified":"2018-08-10T05:48:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T10:48:07","slug":"7569","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/23\/7569\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough Already"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d call it a pet peeve, but both pet and peeve sound kinda cute, and what I’m about to explain represents more of a junkyard abhorrence; it’s got a spike collar and a low growl in the throat whenever the subject walks by.<\/p>\n

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I hate “so-called.”<\/h2>\n

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Any time a writer, particularly a professional<\/strike> paid writer or journalist throws this amalgamation into a serious news article or essay, I question the credibility or maturity of the writer. No, I want to punch the johnker right in his or her stunted vocabulary.<\/p>\n

So-called<\/i> is alleged<\/i> with a sneer, with a sense of condescension that intimates that we<\/i>, meaning the liberally-educated author and his or her intelligent readership, understand the facade of the following noun for what it is, a cheap manipulation of truth built by the Orwellian right-wing\/administration\/conservative\/techno\/military\/industrial\/business\/ (breath<\/i><\/b>) \/capitalist\/Christian\/Zionist\/Machiavellian\/fascist complex\/conspiracy.<\/p>\n

Get a thesaurus, pinheads, and leave the so-calling to the adolescents.<\/p>\n

(This rant spurred by Roger L. Simon<\/a>, who made the mistake of linking to Noam Chompsky’s op-ed piece<\/a> in the New York Times<\/i>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d call it a pet peeve, but both pet and peeve sound kinda cute, and what I’m about to explain represents more of a junkyard abhorrence; it’s got a spike collar and a low growl in the throat whenever the subject walks by. I hate “so-called.” Any time a writer, particularly a professional paid writer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22505,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569\/revisions\/22505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}