{"id":3122,"date":"2009-11-03T14:35:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T21:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2009-11-03T14:35:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T21:35:46","slug":"fake-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/03\/fake-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Twitter phenomenon is <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/FakeAPStylebook\">FakeAPStylebook<\/a>, an amusing take on guidelines to proper journalistic writing.  Some tips include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>STAR WARS Episodes IV-VI are to be referred to as &#8220;The Original Trilogy.&#8221; Episodes I-III are not to be referred to at all.<\/li>\n<li>Always capitalize Satan. You don&#8217;t want to get dead goats from those people.<\/li>\n<li>The correct spelling is \u201cRocktober,\u201d not \u201cRoctober,\u201d which is the month of giant birds.<\/li>\n<li>Replace &#8220;situation deteriorated\/worsened&#8221; with &#8220;shit [just] got real.&#8221; Ex: On day three of the hostage crisis, shit got real.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amusing enough, but I have to admit that I originally read &#8220;Fake AP Stylebook&#8221; as &#8220;Fake APS Stylebook,&#8221; as if it were the (fake) American Physical Society rather than the (fake) Associated Press that was handing out advice.  After all, the real APS is quite a bit quirkier than the AP; they insist that no article title begin with &#8220;The,&#8221; and for a while there they were insisting that &#8220;Lagrangian&#8221; be spelled &#8220;Lagrangean.&#8221;  (Everyone has their quirks; <em>Nature<\/em> has banned the words &#8220;paradigm&#8221; and &#8220;scenario&#8221; from its pages entirely.)<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m sure we can do better.  Any good suggestions for improved physics style?  I promise to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmcarroll\">tweet<\/a> anything sufficiently amusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Twitter phenomenon is FakeAPStylebook, an amusing take on guidelines to proper journalistic writing. Some tips include: STAR WARS Episodes IV-VI are to be referred to as &#8220;The Original Trilogy.&#8221; Episodes I-III are not to be referred to at all. Always capitalize Satan. You don&#8217;t want to get dead goats from those people. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}