{"id":647,"date":"2014-06-23T17:40:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T21:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=647"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:23:27","slug":"english-can-be-funny-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2014\/06\/23\/english-can-be-funny-sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"English can be funny sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday afternoons I have been having an English class\/conversation time with whoever wants to come. Lately it\u2019s been separated into the beginner and the advanced class. Yesterday, the advanced class was reading a children\u2019s book about missionaries. On one of the pages, it says, \u201cEvery month a pilot flew in the food and supplies we needed. I helped carry them to our house.\u201d One of the guys got really confused after I explained the words \u201cpilot\u201d and \u201cflew.\u201d Read the beginning of the sentence carefully. \u201cEvery month a pilot flew in the food.\u201d He got into a big grocery bag and used that as the airplane? If you don\u2019t see his problem yet, consider the difference between these two sentences: \u201cEvery month a pilot flew in the airplane.\u201d \u201cEvery month a pilot flew in the food.\u201d It made me laugh, because I saw how it totally confused him. Yes, English can be funny sometimes. And so can all the other languages, too. That\u2019s what makes it fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday afternoons I have been having an English class\/conversation time with whoever wants to come. Lately it\u2019s been separated into the beginner and the advanced class. Yesterday, the advanced class was reading a children\u2019s book about missionaries. On one of the pages, it says, \u201cEvery month a pilot flew in the food and supplies [&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":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","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=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}