{"id":15249,"date":"2018-03-13T13:42:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15249"},"modified":"2018-03-13T13:42:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:42:19","slug":"hit-us-up-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15249","title":{"rendered":"Hit us up on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a podcast I listen to &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waywordradio.org\/\">A Way with Words<\/a>, when asking people to get in touch to ask language-related questions, they often say &#8220;Hit us up on Twitter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To my ears this sounds strange. I might say something like, &#8220;Contact us on Twitter&#8221;, or even &#8220;Drop us a tweet&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Does it sound strange to you?<\/p>\n<p>How would you ask people to tweet?<\/p>\n<p>How is Twitter referred to in other languages?<\/p>\n<p>When asking people to phone you, would you say any of the following?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Drop us a line<br \/>\n&#8211; Call us<br \/>\n&#8211; Give us a call<br \/>\n&#8211; Give us a bell<br \/>\n&#8211; Give us a buzz<\/p>\n<p>Or something else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a podcast I listen to &#8211; A Way with Words, when asking people to get in touch to ask language-related questions, they often say &#8220;Hit us up on Twitter&#8221;. To my ears this sounds strange. I might say something like, &#8220;Contact us on Twitter&#8221;, or even &#8220;Drop us a tweet&#8221;. Does it sound strange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}