{"id":3153,"date":"2005-10-18T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:09","slug":"strangely-helpful-writing-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3153","title":{"rendered":"Strangely Helpful Writing Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this one&#8217;s actually more like an <em>amusing<\/em> writing tool, but now you can link your slang to definitions on the web. In 2003 a smart chap at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocf.berkeley.edu\/~wrader\/slang\/index.html#recent\">Cal<\/a> made, as a project, a slang dictionary. I think he&#8217;s probably graduated by now and given up on every trying to finish it &#8212; language and linguistic subcultures multiply faster than cells divide. Frankly, I get more out of watching an episode of <a href=\"psc.disney.go.com\/disneychannel\/kimpossible\">Kim Possible<\/a> than out of this dictionary, but should you be in need of old-school slang that you mostly already know, check it out. <br \/>Should you be in need of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandarintools.com\/chinesename.html\">Chinese name<\/a> you can always find it and other helpful hits on the Mandarin language on this nifty site.Finally, I&#8217;ve found my fantasy writing greatly expanded by reading information posted on the Orb. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-orb.net\">ORB<\/a> stands for the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies. These are factual, scholarly and sometimes deeply involved and labyrinthine dissertations on medieval fact. Now, how cool is that?<\/p>\n<p>Happy writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this one&#8217;s actually more like an amusing writing tool, but now you can link your slang to definitions on the web. In 2003&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3383,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions\/3383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}