{"id":40203,"date":"2004-03-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/03\/17\/nnu-skriver-jag-inte-bra\/"},"modified":"2004-03-17T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T07:00:00","slug":"nnu-skriver-jag-inte-bra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040317-00\/?p=40203","title":{"rendered":"&#196;nnu skriver jag inte bra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was exchanging e-mail with one of the people I will be visiting while I&#8217;m in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uu.se\">Uppsala<\/a> [link repaired 10:43pm].&nbsp;and we wrote in double-translation, first in Swedish, with English translation beneath it.\nBut eventually he gave up and wrote exclusively in English.\nI went back to my previous dual-language message and found a few pretty stupid grammatical errors. I guess he figured it&#8217;d be better just not to try.\nSadly, I have yet to get to the point where the grammar is natural and I don&#8217;t have to think about it. (The problem is that the verbs are <strong>too easy<\/strong> so I think I can get away with not practicing them. And then I mess up stuff like using the infinitive instead of the present tense finite. As opposed to German, where verbs are just plain hard from the start, so there&#8217;s no temptation to be lazy.)<\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of something I noticed when watching the movie <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lichter-der-film.de\/\">Lichter<\/a><\/i>: When communications break down and people get frustrated (as happens in the interrogation room in Frankfurt-am-Oder and in the apartment building in Slubice), people stop trying to accomodate the other person&#8217;s language and just start yelling at each other in English. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was exchanging e-mail with one of the people I will be visiting while I&#8217;m in Uppsala [link repaired 10:43pm].&nbsp;and we wrote in double-translation, first in Swedish, with English translation beneath it. But eventually he gave up and wrote exclusively in English. I went back to my previous dual-language message and found a few pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-40203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I was exchanging e-mail with one of the people I will be visiting while I&#8217;m in Uppsala [link repaired 10:43pm].&nbsp;and we wrote in double-translation, first in Swedish, with English translation beneath it. But eventually he gave up and wrote exclusively in English. I went back to my previous dual-language message and found a few pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}