{"id":2704,"date":"2010-10-12T18:58:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T22:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2010-10-12T18:59:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T22:59:45","slug":"speaking-and-writing-are-your-expertise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2704","title":{"rendered":"\"Speaking or writing are your expertise\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There's a Facebook app called \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/connect\/uiserver.php?app_id=146725655370922&amp;next=http%3A%2F%2Fdv4.zwigglers.com%2Ftaker%2F%3Fredirect%3D1%26rf%3Dnf%26rts%3D1286839012&amp;display=page&amp;locale=en_US&amp;perms=publish_stream&amp;return_session=0&amp;fbconnect=0&amp;canvas=1&amp;legacy_return=1&amp;method=permissions.request\">What Geek Are You?<\/a>\"\u00a0 If you let it digest the contents of your account, and perhaps answer some questions &#8212;\u00a0 I haven't tried it, and don't know the details &#8212; it decides what (kind of) geek you are. David C reports that one of his friends, who is fluent or literate in five languages, was classified as \"Geek in English\/Language\", with this description thereby posted to his wall:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Speaking or writing are your expertise. There's nothing you can't say or write that gets your point across in an easy to understand way. You are the master of whatever extra languages you study, whether its a romantic like Spanish or French, or something completly different.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Is this pathetic incompetence, or hip irony, or perhaps both?\u00a0 I'm not sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There's a Facebook app called \"What Geek Are You?\"\u00a0 If you let it digest the contents of your account, and perhaps answer some questions &#8212;\u00a0 I haven't tried it, and don't know the details &#8212; it decides what (kind of) geek you are. David C reports that one of his friends, who is fluent or [&hellip;]<\/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":[23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-wtf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","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=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}