{"id":3365,"date":"2010-11-16T19:36:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T00:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2010-11-16T19:36:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T00:36:28","slug":"save-the-words-adopt-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3365","title":{"rendered":"Save The Words: Adopt a Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Screen-shot-2010-11-16-at-5.29.01-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3367\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-11-16 at 5.29.01 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Screen-shot-2010-11-16-at-5.29.01-PM-300x208.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethewords.org\/\">Save The Words<\/a> is a neat social project set up by the Oxford University Press where you can &#8220;adopt&#8221; a rarely used word like &#8220;egrote&#8221; (to feign an illness). If you adopt a word then the idea is that you will use it in various ways. The site suggests you could name a pet with the word, get a tatoo, walk around with a signboard and so on.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Old words, wise words, hard-working words. Words that once led meaningful lives but now lie unused, unloved and unwanted.<\/p>\n<p>You can change all that. Help save the worlds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The interface to the project is also worth noting. The Flash interface has a wall of words in different fonts and on different surfaces as if photographs of words in contexts. A faux version of our <a href=\"http:\/\/lexigraphi.ca\">Dictionary of Words in the Wild<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save The Words is a neat social project set up by the Oxford University Press where you can &#8220;adopt&#8221; a rarely used word like &#8220;egrote&#8221; (to feign an illness). If you adopt a word then the idea is that you will use it in various ways. The site suggests you could name a pet with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3365\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Save The Words: Adopt a Word<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interface-design-and-usability","category-words-in-the-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3368,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}