{"id":4816,"date":"2026-08-02T17:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:59:22","slug":"opinion-how-we-speak-has-gotten-extravagant-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4816","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | How We Speak Has Gotten Extravagant. Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/30\/opinion\/gen-z-speech-patterns-language.html?unlocked_article_code=1.11A.ovXC.ZxrtIwcrqVcx&amp;smid=url-share\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Opinion | How We Speak Has Gotten Extravagant. Literally.\" 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\/07\/30\/opinion\/30mcwhorter-newsletter\/30mcwhorter-newsletter-largeHorizontalJumbo.jpg\" 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\">Opinion | How We Speak Has Gotten Extravagant. Literally.<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">We don\u2019t speak just to say something. We speak to be heard.<\/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],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","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=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4817,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions\/4817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}