{"id":686,"date":"2008-10-01T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=686"},"modified":"2009-04-04T21:20:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T04:20:04","slug":"random-musings-on-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2008\/10\/01\/random-musings-on-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Random musings on French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe I missed the leaders&#8217; debate in French tonight! To be rather honest, politics don&#8217;t interest me terribly much, but everything&#8217;s better with the addition of French. (De plus je me sens mieux apr\u00e8s avoir entendu le fran\u00e7ais de M. Harper. Ouaiiis c&#8217;est injuste et mesquin et tout \u00e7a, mais on se moque de lui pour n&#8217;importe quoi d&#8217;autre.)<\/p>\n<p>I also feel like I should write a letter of thanks to my first high school French language\/English grammar teacher. Bien que je pense ne pas avoir beaucoup appris dans son cours de fran\u00e7ais, ce sont les le\u00e7ons qu&#8217;elle nous a donn\u00e9es en grammaire anglaise dont je me sers tout le temps. Comprendre ce que c&#8217;est un COD est beaucoup plus facile si on connait d\u00e9j\u00e0 &#8220;direct objects&#8221; en anglais.)<\/p>\n<p>Something only a French prof could say:<br \/>\n&#8220;Do you take the bus? I take the bus. It&#8217;s lovely! From a linguistic point of view.&#8221;<br \/>\nLui, c&#8217;est un homme un peu dingue (comme vous l&#8217;avez remarqu\u00e9, sans doute).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe I missed the leaders&#8217; debate in French tonight! To be rather honest, politics don&#8217;t interest me terribly much, but everything&#8217;s better with the addition of French. (De plus je me sens mieux apr\u00e8s avoir entendu le fran\u00e7ais de M. Harper. Ouaiiis c&#8217;est injuste et mesquin et tout \u00e7a, mais on se moque [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,55,33],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotidian","tag-francais","tag-politics","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}