{"id":9868,"date":"2018-08-02T17:56:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T00:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=9868"},"modified":"2018-08-02T19:23:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T02:23:20","slug":"language-i-know-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/08\/language-i-know-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Language: &#8220;I Know, Right?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vacation-bound on an airplane, I heard a woman behind me say, approximately 732 times in a twenty-minute conversation, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I know, right?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realize how long that annoying, meaningless phrase has been around.&#8221;\u00a0Researching it, I found this 2011 episode from Jerry Scott&#8217;s and Jim Borgman&#8217;s comic strip <em>Zits<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ZitsRight.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9869\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ZitsRight.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further investigation disclosed that the phrase appeared even earlier, in the 2004 motion picture&#8221;\u00a0<em>Mean Girls<\/em>. Some experts credit the movie with infusing the phrase into the language. It may not be too late for the film makers to refute the charge and clear their names.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vacation-bound on an airplane, I heard a woman behind me say, approximately 732 times in a twenty-minute conversation, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I know, right?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realize how long that annoying, meaningless phrase has been around.&#8221;\u00a0Researching it, I found this 2011 episode from Jerry Scott&#8217;s and Jim Borgman&#8217;s comic strip Zits. Further investigation disclosed that the phrase appeared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}