{"id":228,"date":"2004-04-30T16:19:04","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T23:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=228"},"modified":"2004-04-30T16:19:04","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T23:19:04","slug":"we-didnt-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"We didn&#8217;t talk&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bray <a href=\"http:\/\/tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2004\/04\/29\/VingtLangues\">links<\/a> to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/page.php?Article=201236\">article<\/a> about the language problems in the European Parliament.*  He quotes the following sentence (the context is a group of observers at a dinner, none of whom had a language in common): <i>\u00abOn n&#8217;a pas parl\u00e9. Alors, en fin de repas, on a dans\u00e9&#8230;\u00bb<\/i><\/p>\n<p>How would one translate this into English?  One usually uses &#8220;we&#8221; for this kind of thing, but what if the speaker wasn&#8217;t dancing?<\/p>\n<p>* *cough*esperanto*cough*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bray links to an article about the language problems in the European Parliament.* He quotes the following sentence (the context is a group of observers at a dinner, none of whom had a language in common): \u00abOn n&#8217;a pas parl\u00e9. Alors, en fin de repas, on a dans\u00e9&#8230;\u00bb How would one translate this into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We didn&#8217;t talk&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}