{"id":332,"date":"2007-07-30T08:12:16","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T12:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2007-07-30T08:12:16","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T12:12:16","slug":"colour-and-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Colour and speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/004766.html\">Language log<\/a> there is a study out suggesting that Nerds, or dorkenheimers, are identified in the Californian school system because they are &#8220;too white&#8221; and avoid all the &#8220;Black&#8221; stylings of speech and dress traditionally<sup class=\"footnote\"><a href=\"#fn1\">1<\/a><\/sup> affected by white teenagers. But this can&#8217;t be true. I remember distinctly when Zonker, who is Californian, was advertising a Nerdcare anti-sun lotion, and it was minty green. I&#8217;m away from the family archive <span class=\"caps\">CD, <\/span>so I can&#8217;t find the link.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn1\"><sup>1<\/sup> on the &#8220;classic&#8221; timescale &#8212; ie since about 1959<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Language log there is a study out suggesting that Nerds, or dorkenheimers, are identified in the Californian school system because they are &#8220;too white&#8221; and avoid all the &#8220;Black&#8221; stylings of speech and dress traditionally1 affected by white &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=332\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=332\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}