{"id":32179,"date":"2013-06-30T01:25:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T08:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=32179"},"modified":"2013-06-30T01:25:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T08:25:16","slug":"stephen-fry-on-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/32179","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fry on language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J7E-aoXLZGY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting how celebrity works. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll often bring up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenfry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Fry<\/a> in the classroom (and mention his <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/19741\" target=\"_blank\">incredible Gutenberg documentary<\/a> for the BBC) but very few students have heard of him. Then I mention <a href=\"http:\/\/hdwallpapersbase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hugh_laurie_in_house_m-d-_tv_series_wallpaper.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Hugh Laurie and House,<\/a> then draw the connection to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZFD01r6ersw\" target=\"_blank\">Fry and Laurie<\/a> and \u2013 just let things happen.<\/p>\n<p>(I also think Laurie should have played Archer on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/page\/star-trek-enterprise\" target=\"_blank\">Star Trek prequel series,<\/a> but what do I know)<\/p>\n<p>Designer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattjamesrogers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Rogers<\/a> took Fry&#8217;s comments on language \u2013 which has this wonderful way of evolving \u2013\u00a0and made it visual (above). <\/p>\n<p>I am currently working on a project where I&#8217;m screwing with language for fun. <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Translate<\/a> is a great video game, no <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/#en\/nl\/scores\" target=\"_blank\">scores<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/#en\/eo\/explosions\" target=\"_blank\">explosions<\/a> (unless you look them up); but always fascinating results.<\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/stephen-fry-takes-a-firm-stance-on-grammar-he-doesnt-go-the-way-youd-think-2\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Stephen Fry on language\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/32179\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting how celebrity works. I&#8217;ll often bring up Stephen Fry in the classroom (and mention his incredible Gutenberg documentary for the BBC) but very few students have heard of him. Then I mention Hugh Laurie and House, then draw the connection to Fry and Laurie and \u2013 just let things happen. (I also think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,49,53,120],"tags":[121,126,58,122],"class_list":["post-32179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-education","category-thoughts","category-typography","tag-design","tag-education","tag-graphic-design","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32179"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32188,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32179\/revisions\/32188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}