{"id":1979,"date":"2009-12-20T15:07:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T19:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2009-12-21T09:54:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T13:54:10","slug":"like-oreos-but-braver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=1979","title":{"rendered":"Like Oreos, but braver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the notorious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.languagemonitor.com\/top_word_lists\/top-words-of-the-decade-2000-2009\">Global Language Monitor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/GLM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/GLM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Click on the image for a larger screenshot.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Even spelled correctly,  \"heroes\" isn't a name.  The FDNY and NYPD responders who died in the World Trade Center buildings were heroes, sure enough, but it's not a very respectful tribute to stick a mis-spelled reference to them at the top of a list that's not even the right lexical category.<\/p>\n<p>This isn't the first time that one of Paul JJ Payack's lexicographic PR stunts has been mishandled: see \"<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=1497\">Millionth word story botched<\/a>\" (6\/10\/2009) for an earlier example; or <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?s=Payack\">this list of posts<\/a> for some background.<\/p>\n<p>[For a somewhat more serious &#8212; and also funnier &#8212; WOTY article, see Mark Leibovich and Grant Barrett, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/20\/weekinreview\/20buzz.html\">The Buzzwords of 2009<\/a>\", NYT 12\/19\/2009.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the notorious Global Language Monitor: (Click on the image for a larger screenshot.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}