{"id":12,"date":"2008-04-09T00:07:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T22:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-04-09T14:25:58","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T12:25:58","slug":"pressing-hardly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/pressing-hardly","title":{"rendered":"Pressing hardly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realise more and more how complex the English language is from speaking to Dorje. Having a Xhosa nanny, getting the genders right is an ongoing struggle. I don&#8217;t know how many times I&#8217;ve corrected things like <em>The man, she said<\/em>. I try and do it subtly, not harshly telling him he&#8217;s wrong like a schoolteacher. I usually repeat the sentence with the correct grammar, but then I run into the difference between <em>I<\/em> and <em>you<\/em>, and the conjugation of the verbs. So I usually have to find an excuse to repeat the sentence from the same grammatical point of view.<\/p>\n<p>I can see the outcome. Either Dorje will be a grammar nazi, like me (I remember stubbornly saying <em>yes<\/em> instead of <em>ja<\/em> like the cool kids, at age 7 or so, just because it was <em>right<\/em> ), or the opposite, making the impression of a rapper in the Oxford English department.<\/p>\n<p>There are times when I just want to give up. <em>I&#8217;m pressing softly<\/em> says Dorje, as he sticks the fork in my skin. <em>Now I&#8217;m pressing hardly <\/em>he says, poking the fork into my skin with a vengeance. Trying to explain is just too much &#8211; bloody English grammar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realise more and more how complex the English language is from speaking to Dorje. Having a Xhosa nanny, getting the genders right is an ongoing struggle. I don&#8217;t know how many times I&#8217;ve corrected things like The man, she said. I try and do it subtly, not harshly telling him he&#8217;s wrong like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}