{"id":72,"date":"2007-11-06T21:21:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/12\/01\/an-almost-modern-linguistic-phenomenon\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T10:48:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T00:48:21","slug":"an-almost-modern-linguistic-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2007\/11\/06\/an-almost-modern-linguistic-phenomenon\/","title":{"rendered":"An Almost Modern Linguistic Phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear linguists,<\/p>\n<p>Almost two years ago, I started to write this post.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed a modern linguistic phenomenon where people linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jroller.com\/oburn\/date\/20050927\">several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.quaddmg.com\/articles\/2005\/10\/18\/queen-of-hearts\">words<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/09\/08\/employment-agency\/\">in<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/vinz_klortho\/309443.html\">a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/plasmasturm.org\/log\/364\/\">row<\/a> in their post. Each link was to a web-page giving an example of what they were talking about.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to point this new phenomena out to the world. I was going to have linguists say &#8220;Oooh, look! He&#8217;s right! How intelligent and observant he is!&#8221; They were going to call them &#8220;Julian links&#8221;. I was going to be linguistically famous.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have enough examples for a full sentence, so I started keeping an eye out, gathering more proof.<\/p>\n<p>Then I didn&#8217;t see any for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Then I started seeing some, but was too busy or bored to jot them down.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, I forgot.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I read a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2007-10-24-n27.html\">page<\/a> where they were identified as &#8220;train links&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>My fame and fortune! Stolen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to point out a new linguistic phenomenon out to the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,21],"tags":[165,105,370],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroic-failures","category-observation","tag-blogosphere","tag-linguistics","tag-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}