{"id":252569,"date":"2010-01-30T14:52:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T19:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2010-01-30T14:52:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T19:52:21","slug":"spokespirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/252569","title":{"rendered":"Spokespirate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still January, but I&#8217;ve already got a nomination for the 2010 WOTY competition: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/79632\/somali-pirates-will-donate-booty-to-haiti.html\"><em>spokespirate<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Saying the US and Europe \u201chave no moral authority\u201d to control the aid going to Haiti, Somali pirates say they plan to donate booty from their hijackings to the relief effort. The pirates have taken in more than $150 million in the past 2 years, by one estimate, and now aim to redistribute some while thumbing their noses at the Western powers. \u201cThey are the ones pirating mankind for many years,\u201d a spokespirate tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matrizur.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=4617:piratasq-somalies-desean-enviar-a-haiti-mercancias-confiscadas-a-paises-ricos&amp;catid=38:patria-grande\">Agencia Matriz del Sur.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-2088\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?source=ig&amp;hl=en&amp;rlz=&amp;=&amp;q=spokespirate&amp;btnG=Google+Search\">not entirely original<\/a>.\u00a0 But I haven&#8217;t previously seen it used in reference to actual ship-hijacking pirates.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spokes-X<\/em> has become a reasonably productive pattern, though only a few instances (e.g. <em>spokesmodel<\/em>) have graduated from the realm of humorous neologisms (such as<em> spokesathlete, spokesbimbo, spokesdrone, spokesfool, spokeskitteh, spokesmime, spokesmoron, spokesnazi, spokespoet, spokesrobot, spokeszombie, <\/em>&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>[Hat tip to David Donnell]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still January, but I&#8217;ve already got a nomination for the 2010 WOTY competition: spokespirate: Saying the US and Europe \u201chave no moral authority\u201d to control the aid going to Haiti, Somali pirates say they plan to donate booty from their hijackings to the relief effort. The pirates have taken in more than $150 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}