{"id":477,"date":"2003-08-19T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-19T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=477"},"modified":"2003-08-19T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-19T13:34:00","slug":"my-grammar-what-big-eyes-you-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-08\/477-my-grammar-what-big-eyes-you-have","title":{"rendered":"My, Grammar&#8230; what big eyes you have!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Links from today&#8217;s snotmail advertising&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Part 1: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/encarta.msn.com\/encnet\/features\/Columns\/?Article=grammarpopmain\">Grammar lessons for pop stars<\/a><br \/>\nPart 3: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/encarta.msn.com\/encnet\/features\/columns\/?article=grammarpopdetention\">Detention, for rhyming and other crimes<\/a><br \/>\nPart 2: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/encarta.msn.com\/encnet\/features\/columns\/?article=grammarpopflaccid\">&#8220;F&#8221; for flaccid writing<\/a><br \/>\nPart 4: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/encarta.msn.com\/encnet\/features\/columns\/?article=grammarpophallpass\">Hall pass granted<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the last part, she says:<br \/>\n&#151; &#151; &#151; &#151; &#151;<br \/>\n<font COLOR=\"#663300\">The ultimate hall pass, though, goes to the Rolling Stones for &#8220;Satisfaction.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t get any satisfaction&#8221; would be correct, but it is utterly without soul. To be grammatical here would be to write Muzak instead of music. It would be completely unsatisfying, not unlike the Britney Spears cover of this same song. <\/font><br \/>\n&#151; &#151; &#151; &#151; &#151;<\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER, according to my Existential Philosophy professor, &#8220;<b>no<\/b> satisfaction&#8221; was what the Stones were really seeking! In Existentialist terms, &#8220;satisfaction&#8221; is a Bad Thing for it is only when one is DISsatisfied that true enlightenment can take place. Or something like that. Which means that the Stones grammar was, in fact, correct!<\/p>\n<p>So there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links from today&#8217;s snotmail advertising&#8230; Part 1: Grammar lessons for pop stars Part 3: Detention, for rhyming and other crimes Part 2: &#8220;F&#8221; for flaccid writing Part 4: Hall pass granted In the last part, she says: &#151; &#151; &#151; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-08\/477-my-grammar-what-big-eyes-you-have\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}