{"id":35844,"date":"2018-06-10T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35844"},"modified":"2018-09-18T10:44:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:44:04","slug":"qotd-typing-with-a-foreign-accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/06\/10\/qotd-typing-with-a-foreign-accent\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Typing with a foreign accent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To sound generally foreign, omit elisions and contractions normally used by native speakers. Type \u201cI do not think I have the time\u201d rather than \u201cI don\u2019t think I have time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>To sound German, put commas in places that do not correspond to speech pauses in English. \u201cI do not know, how he could have believed that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To sound Russian, omit definite or indefinite articles. \u201cNo, you cannot have cheeseburger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To sound like a speaker of Hindi or Urdu or one of the related languages, emit wordy run-on sentences that begin with \u201cEsteemed sir\u201d, like: \u201cEsteemed sir, I would be grateful if you could direct me towards a good book on Python because I am attempting to learn programming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Understand, none of these errors actually interferes with comprehension. I\u2019ve found that these second-language speakers are often more worried about the quality of their English than they need to be.<\/p>\n<p>Eric S. Raymond, <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1058\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How to Type with a Foreign Accent&#8221;, <em>Armed and Dangerous<\/em><\/a>, 2009-06-12.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To sound generally foreign, omit elisions and contractions normally used by native speakers. Type \u201cI do not think I have the time\u201d rather than \u201cI don\u2019t think I have time\u201d. To sound German, put commas in places that do not correspond to speech pauses in English. \u201cI do not know, how he could have believed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,15,13],"tags":[1235,400],"class_list":["post-35844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-technology","category-usa","tag-esr","tag-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9k8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35845,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35844\/revisions\/35845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}