{"id":836,"date":"2006-11-05T14:12:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T13:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/11\/05\/spelling_reform_and_cultural_vandalism"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:12:23","slug":"spelling_reform_and_cultural_vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/11\/05\/spelling_reform_and_cultural_vandalism","title":{"rendered":"Spelling reform and cultural vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted an article to the <em>Sharpener<\/em> in response to the article in the <em>Guardian<\/em> by Simon Jenkins on Friday trying to arouse interest in &quot;reforming&quot; English spelling.  He thinks it&#39;s great that the Scottish Qualifications Authority have now allowed the use of text-message abbreviations in exams (I really hope they don&#39;t include English exams!).  I think it&#39;s grand-scale cultural vandalism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/11\/05\/why-spelling-reform-is-cultural-vandalism-2007\">Why &quot;Spelling reform&quot; is cultural vandalism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted an article to the Sharpener in response to the article in the Guardian by Simon Jenkins on Friday trying to arouse interest in &quot;reforming&quot; English spelling. He thinks it&#39;s great that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-du","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42233,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/42233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}