{"id":199629,"date":"2007-07-10T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/10\/america-will-be-the-death-of-the-english-language\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T11:47:00","slug":"america-will-be-the-death-of-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/10\/america-will-be-the-death-of-the-english-language\/","title":{"rendered":"America Will Be the Death of the English Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to a sales pitch for a robot.<\/p>\n<p>The salesman was pitching the ease of programming the device, and the ease of porting programs between different models.<\/p>\n<p>He then said that if needed, a &#8220;webinar&#8221; could be arranged to train our people for training.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Webinar????<\/span><span> What the hell is a <span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Webinar????<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He clear meant a teleconference with a shared desktop (Webex<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>), but why do people have to do this to the English language<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to a sales pitch for a robot. The salesman was pitching the ease of programming the device, and the ease of porting programs between different models. He then said that if needed, a &#8220;webinar&#8221; could be arranged to train our people for training. Webinar???? What the hell is a Webinar???? He clear &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1005,1130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-business","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}