{"id":166,"date":"2009-10-15T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2009-10-19T09:23:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T08:23:26","slug":"languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/800px-Rainbow_flag_and_blue_skies-320x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-169\" title=\"800px-Rainbow_flag_and_blue_skies [320x200]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/800px-Rainbow_flag_and_blue_skies-320x200.jpg\" alt=\"800px-Rainbow_flag_and_blue_skies [320x200]\" width=\"301\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/800px-Rainbow_flag_and_blue_skies-320x200.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/800px-Rainbow_flag_and_blue_skies-320x200-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 85vw, 301px\" \/><\/a>Why do many (european) languages have male, female and sometimes neuter words? What&#8217;s the point of it? To we English it seems so unnessesary and makes learning a language much harder.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that English is no picnic. We could certainly simplify our spelling, and I&#8217;m told that our use of articles (the, a) is fraught with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnenglish.de\/grammar\/articlestext.htm\">illogical rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do many (european) languages have male, female and sometimes neuter words? What&#8217;s the point of it? To we English it seems so unnessesary and makes learning a language much harder. Having said that English is no picnic. We could certainly simplify our spelling, and I&#8217;m told that our use of articles (the, a) is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/languages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Languages&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}