{"id":657096,"date":"2010-02-07T01:42:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T06:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2010-02-07T01:42:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T06:42:40","slug":"odium-against-podium-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/657096","title":{"rendered":"Odium against &#8220;podium&#8221; revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago I wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/002839.html\">Language Log post<\/a> looking into the use of <em>podium<\/em> as a verb at the Winter Olympics in <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/002834.html\">Torino<\/a> &#8212; and the often extreme reactions that the usage provoked. Now with the Vancouver Olympics coming up, I return to the theme in my latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/07\/magazine\/07FOB-onlanguage-t.html\">On Language column<\/a> in the <em>New York Times Magazine<\/em>. It is no doubt the first (and last) article in the <em>Times<\/em> to cite both a  senior editor of <em>Ski Racing<\/em> magazine and Eve &amp; Herbert Clark&#8217;s crucial study of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/pss\/412745\">denominal verbs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago I wrote a Language Log post looking into the use of podium as a verb at the Winter Olympics in Torino &#8212; and the often extreme reactions that the usage provoked. Now with the Vancouver Olympics coming up, I return to the theme in my latest On Language column in the New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KWk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}