{"id":2559,"date":"2009-11-25T00:54:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T04:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2009-11-25T00:54:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T04:54:02","slug":"terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/11\/25\/terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Whom It May Concern:<\/p>\n<p>I would like to clear up a few frequently-confused terms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Confusing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zd_8m241vYg\">Ludacris <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/ludicrous\">ludicrous<\/a> provokes laughter because of absurdity.<\/li>\n    <li>The only people who confuse &#8220;looser&#8221; and &#8220;loser&#8221; are losers with a loose grasp of the language.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819105259\">CPU<\/a> refers to the processor on your motherboard. It is not a technical term for your whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestbuy.com\/site\/HP+-+Pavilion+Slimline+Desktop+with+Intel%26%23174%3B+Pentium%26%23174%3B+Processor\/9548037.p?id=1218122576753&#038;skuId=9548037\">computer<\/a>, nor its chassis\/case\/enclosure.<\/li>\n    <li>Unless you actually understand the difference between a backslash () and a slash (\/), you should probably just say &#8220;slash,&#8221; because it&#8217;s almost certainly what you mean, unless you&#8217;re dictating regular expressions or connecting to Windows network shares.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Communism\">Communism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Socialism\">Socialism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leninism\">Leninism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marxism\">Marxism<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fascism\">Fascism<\/a> are not all synonyms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Whom It May Concern: I would like to clear up a few frequently-confused terms: Confusing Ludacris and ludicrous provokes laughter because of absurdity. The only people who confuse &#8220;looser&#8221; and &#8220;loser&#8221; are losers with a loose grasp of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/11\/25\/terminology\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}