How to practice spoken English when you are all alone?

Analogy between REST and English language: semantically defined by purists, but in practice, poorly spoken over the world?

• Example: from Twitter API documentation; https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/post/account/update_profile   POST https://api.twitter.com/1/account/update_profile?name=Matt+Harris (1) POST should have been UPDATE (2) Version should have been an HTTP header (3) update_profile should have been a noun (4) Query parameters should have been posted into a message body, as there is semantically no query/filter

• Answer:

  Yes.