{"id":11915,"date":"2019-01-01T10:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T10:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/?p=11915"},"modified":"2019-01-01T10:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T10:03:19","slug":"guardian-behemoth-bully-thief-how-the-english-language-is-taking-over-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/2019\/01\/01\/guardian-behemoth-bully-thief-how-the-english-language-is-taking-over-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian: Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>No language in history has been used by so many people or spanned a greater portion of the globe. It is aspirational: the golden ticket to the worlds of education and international commerce, a parent\u2019s dream and a student\u2019s misery, winnower of the haves from the have-nots. It is the internet, science, diplomacy, stellar navigation, avian pathology. And everywhere it goes, it leaves behind a trail of dead: dialects crushed, languages forgotten, literatures mangled. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/jul\/27\/english-language-global-dominance?CMP=fb_gu\">#<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No language in history has been used by so many people or spanned a greater portion of the globe. It is aspirational: the golden ticket to the worlds of education and international commerce, a parent\u2019s dream and a student\u2019s misery, winnower of the haves from the have-nots. It is the internet, science, diplomacy, stellar navigation, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/2019\/01\/01\/guardian-behemoth-bully-thief-how-the-english-language-is-taking-over-the-planet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Halda \u00e1fram a\u00f0 lesa: <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guardian: Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visun","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/oligneisti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}