{"id":219,"date":"2008-05-30T06:12:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T13:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2009-07-24T11:12:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T15:12:02","slug":"yo-no-se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/30\/yo-no-se\/","title":{"rendered":"Yo no se…"},"content":{"rendered":"

From an article<\/a> in the Associated Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Spanish becoming Miami’s primary language<\/h3>\n

MIAMI – Melissa Green’s mother spoke Spanish, but she never learned – her father forbid it. Today, that’s a frequent problem in this city where the English-speaking population is outnumbered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given this example of a professional author’s misuse of the verb “forbid” (past tense being “forbade” or “forbad”) and professional editors’ failure to catch or correct the problem, I guess we should just be happy that *some* language is still being taught *somewhere*.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From an article in the Associated Press: Spanish becoming Miami’s primary language MIAMI – Melissa Green’s mother spoke Spanish, but she never learned – her father forbid it. Today, that’s a frequent problem in this city where the English-speaking population is outnumbered. Given this example of a professional author’s misuse of the verb “forbid” (past […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}