{"id":1190,"date":"2026-03-22T02:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2026-03-22T02:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:04:34","slug":"modern-language-and-the-cult-of-the-casual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"Modern Language and the \u2018Cult of the Casual\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/opinion\/100000010774147\/modern-language-and-the-cult-of-the-casual.html\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Video: Opinion | Modern Language and the \u2018Cult of the Casual\u2019\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/03\/13\/arts\/words-hop-on-THUMB-clean\/words-hop-on-THUMB-clean-facebookJumbo.jpg?video-overlay\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.nytimes.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Video: Opinion | Modern Language and the \u2018Cult of the Casual\u2019<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Is saying \u201clike\u201d and \u201csort of\u201d the equivalent of verbal bubble wrap? John McWhorter, an Opinion writer and a linguistics professor at Columbia, argues yes, because they soften the sharp edges of what we really mean. He explains the larger implications of the language we might not even realize we\u2019re using.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","category-video","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}