{"id":831,"date":"2006-04-21T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=831"},"modified":"2006-04-21T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T18:22:00","slug":"best-new-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"Best New Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"-2\">Another observation while eating lunch&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Usage seen in a post by <a href=\"http:\/\/underpope.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">underpope<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><b>schiavo<\/b>. <i>n<\/i>. Something that should have been left to die a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>He used it in reference to the reports of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/news\/210406_01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">yet-another-Startrek-movie<\/a>; I think it applies better to the reports of <i>Dallas<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/movies\/news\/2006-04-21-travolta-lopez-dallas_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\">being remade<\/a> with John Travolta as J.R. and J-Lo as Sue Ellen.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of words (which we were), note the usage of &#8220;yet-above&#8221;. I wonder how many folks today remember <i>yacc<\/i> (1) (the Yet-Another-Compiler-Compiler). This led to all sorts of YAs, such as when I was referring to the UCLA Engineering IV building (before it was named) as the Yet Another Boelter Hall Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another observation while eating lunch&#8230; Usage seen in a post by underpope: schiavo. n. Something that should have been left to die a long time ago. He used it in reference to the reports of yet-another-Startrek-movie; I think it applies better to the reports of Dallas being remade with John Travolta as J.R. and J-Lo <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=831\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}