{"id":2276,"date":"2018-01-01T00:02:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T22:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2018-01-02T09:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T07:23:50","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-facebook-aphorisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-facebook-aphorisms\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>Facebook aphorisms<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aphorisms\u00a0stir up\u00a0emotions. Some\u00a0people\u00a0see them as seemingly profound nonsense, while others gain\u00a0strength\u00a0from them. Whatever you think about aphorisms, two things are certain: on Facebook you can\u2019t avoid them, and they represent an entire spectrum of language errors.<\/p>\n<p>On that spectrum you can find:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>comma errors<\/li>\n<li>unnecessary\u00a0\u00a0capitalization<\/li>\n<li>missing sentence parts, like verbs or subjects<\/li>\n<li>smilies instead of periods<\/li>\n<li>erroneous punctuation marks, usually in the wrong places<\/li>\n<li>confusing phrase structures<\/li>\n<li>over-long\u00a0sentences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aphorisms are\u00a0an\u00a0art of everyday life, so we must allow them some\u00a0liberty. But the artistic impression of\u00a0an\u00a0aphorism\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0suffer from having a\u00a0comma in the right place. According to an aphorism, Martin Luther King said, &#8220;To serve,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>you don&#8217;t have to make your subject and verb agree. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.&#8221;\u00a0When it comes to\u00a0writing an\u00a0understandable text,\u00a0though,\u00a0a loving soul is not enough and a gracious heart doesn\u2019t help.\u00a0A soul that can edit, on the other hand, is helpful if an aphorist wants his phrasing to produce feelings\u00a0other than confusion.<\/p>\n<p><em>This week\u2019s guest writer, Terhi Savonen, is a Finnish language student who participated in the Language Consulting Course at the University of Tampere.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aphorisms\u00a0stir up\u00a0emotions. Some\u00a0people\u00a0see them as seemingly profound nonsense, while others gain\u00a0strength\u00a0from them. Whatever you think about aphorisms, two things are certain: on Facebook you can\u2019t avoid them, and they represent an entire spectrum of language errors. On that spectrum you can find: comma errors unnecessary\u00a0\u00a0capitalization missing sentence parts, like verbs or subjects smilies instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}