{"id":457,"date":"2003-04-13T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-13T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2003-04-13T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-13T21:22:00","slug":"fun-with-languages-or-gollumsmegol-get-those-swedish-es","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fun with Languages&#8221; or &#8220;Gollum\/Smegol get those Swedish-es&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fun with Languages&#8221; or &#8220;Gollum\/Smegol get those Swedish-es&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>13 April 2003<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, all of hell has frozen over&#8230;here is ajournal update. A brief one before I head out and party tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I have been corresponding with many Swedes. Some speak English flawlessly. While others, well, they need some more practise. However, I would never hold that against anyone, except this one guy who speaks English so poorly, I have asked him to switch to Swedish and to draw pictures so that we understand each other better.<\/p>\n<p>No, before you go calling me a mean, heartless bastard, you have to understand that the Boy Wonder in question ain&#8217;t ever gonna be no beautiful mind. If my friends Markus, Tomas, and Jesper speak English like the british (this at best, might be a dubious compliment), then this guy, Genius in a bottle, speaks English as well as that creature from the Lord of Ring, Smegol\/Gollum. Everytime he speaks, I think he&#8217;s says &#8220;stupid fat rodney-es, he tooks me lucky charms-es-es, and we wants it back.&#8221; Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, hooked on phonics didn&#8217;t work for him. Sigh&#8230;I am so bitchy tonight. TIme to get drunk.<\/p>\n<p>Ciao for now journal!<\/p>\n<p>Hej d\u00e5 everyone! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Love, Rodney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fun with Languages&#8221; or &#8220;Gollum\/Smegol get those Swedish-es&#8221; 13 April 2003 Yeah, all of hell has frozen over&#8230;here is ajournal update. A brief one before I head out and party tonight. I have been corresponding with many Swedes. Some speak English flawlessly. While others, well, they need some more practise. However, I would never hold &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=457\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Fun with Languages&#8221; or &#8220;Gollum\/Smegol get those Swedish-es&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}