{"id":1506,"date":"2009-05-28T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2009-05-28T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T11:40:00","slug":"legally-defining-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=1506","title":{"rendered":"Legally defining language"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">I remember my Australian friends gleefully telling me how English is better than say German, because in German you need a act in parliament to change the spelling. But it seems that English is not as flexible as they would want to believe.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/emma-rubysachs\/california-supreme-court_b_207765.html\">After all, same-sex couples still have all the rights included in the &#8220;marriage bag&#8221; and so the actual effect of reserving the term marriage to heterosexual couples is not significant enough to warrant a more extensive constitutional approval process.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Though of course you can change something by common usage. So we should all call marriage between gay people marriage and the law and other things, being the stodgy followers that they are will eventually catch up.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember my Australian friends gleefully telling me how English is better than say German, because in German you need[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1259,1516,2051,2236,3191],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-english","tag-german","tag-language","tag-marriage","tag-same-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}