{"id":1824,"date":"2022-04-23T07:28:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T12:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2022-04-23T07:28:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T12:28:22","slug":"how-well-do-you-know-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2022\/04\/23\/how-well-do-you-know-english\/","title":{"rendered":"How well do you know English?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2022\/04\/One-word-or-two-600x311.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2022\/04\/One-word-or-two-600x311.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2022\/04\/One-word-or-two-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2022\/04\/One-word-or-two-768x398.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2022\/04\/One-word-or-two-125x65.jpg 125w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2022\/04\/One-word-or-two-250x130.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2022\/04\/One-word-or-two-450x233.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2022\/04\/One-word-or-two.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was at the orthography (alphabet) conference in Kenya last month, one of the presenters (thanks, Helen Eaton!) showed us the slide that you see in the picture above.\u00a0 She asked us to take two minutes to note down whether these were written as one word, two words, or with a hyphen in English.\u00a0 There&#8217;s my challenge for you &#8211; two minutes, go!<br><br>Did you do it?\u00a0 How many do you think you got right?\u00a0 Scroll down to the comments on this post to see how you did.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re like me, you didn&#8217;t get a 100%!<br><br>When I went, one of the things we&#8217;d been wondering about in the writing of My Language was how to write our tone.\u00a0 (Remember my example of &#8220;the sheep returned, a sheep returned, it&#8217;s a sheep that returned, the sheep returns, a sheep returns, and it&#8217;s a sheep that returns,&#8221; all being pronounced the exact same except for changes in tone?)\u00a0 The other thing the guys I&#8217;ve been working with wanted me to learn more about was word breaks in compound words.\u00a0 And through the exercise you just did (you did do it, right?), I think we can all agree that it&#8217;s a bit complicated, even in a language that many of us have been reading for decades!\u00a0 What a reminder that there is still a lot of work to go in writing down My Language, which is just a step in the whole reason I&#8217;m here.  <em>Sira bili ka jan<\/em> (&#8220;The road ahead of us is still long&#8221; in Jula, the trade language.).\u00a0 Thanks for your prayers as we&#8217;re in this for the long haul, as long as God keeps the doors open!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was at the orthography (alphabet) conference in Kenya last month, one of the presenters (thanks, Helen Eaton!) showed us the slide that you see in the picture above.\u00a0 She asked us to take two minutes to note down whether these were written as one word, two words, or with a hyphen in English.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}