{"id":403,"date":"2011-01-26T19:52:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T19:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/?p=403"},"modified":"2019-02-11T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:13:00","slug":"das-fur-alles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/das-fur-alles\/","title":{"rendered":"das f\u00fcr alles!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>in week 2 of the deutsch course, we have begun to learn &#8220;der, die, das&#8221;. not that there is anything to learn &#8211; it&#8217;s generally completely arbitrary whether a thing has a masculine, feminine or neuter article. no rule, just memorise. der champagne, die schere, das b\u00fcgeleisen &#8230; we were given coloured post-it notes with nouns written on them &amp; asked to stick them into the appropriate der, die, das columns &#8211; it took me a while to click that the pink ones were all die, the blue der &amp; green das. i proposed a &#8220;das f\u00fcr alles!&#8221; campaign &#8211; after all if they can <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_orthography_reform_of_1996\" target=\"_blank\">legislate to make spelling easier<\/a>, why not make other things about the language easier too? what purpose is there to der, die das? english gets along fine with the, &amp; slavic languages like serbian don&#8217;t even bother with article.<br> <br>meanwhile, we have had 2 days of schnee; der schnee gefalt mir &#8211; alle es weiss heraus, und sehr sch\u00f6n.  inside, i work &#8211; ich lerne deutsch, i&#8217;m writing reports &amp; applications, &amp; starting work on a redevelopment of the magdalena project web site. alles gute.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in week 2 of the deutsch course, we have begun to learn &#8220;der, die, das&#8221;. not that there is anything to learn &#8211; it&#8217;s generally<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/das-fur-alles\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}