{"id":23693,"date":"2023-09-28T14:21:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=23693"},"modified":"2023-09-28T14:21:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:21:52","slug":"pardon-my-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/pardon-my-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardon My English"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23fbfbfb&amp;d=_oct23_flipbook&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=44&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bienvenue a Quebec. Please leave your anglaise at the door.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>By Rhea C\u00f4t\u00e9 Robbins<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Everyone seems so jubilantly \u2018languaged\u2019 in Qu\u00e9bec City, and as they walk by me in their diverse splendor, the need for it all to be in English melts\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">A week later, I\u2019m back at camp in Maine\u2014the Belgrades\u2014but the jolt of travel to the country next door is still with me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">The reality that so close to where I live, the French language is \u201chere\u201d atop the heap of spoken tongues once ruled by\u00a0 short, clipped, Germanic, one-syllabled English (apart from words borrowed from the French to begin with) begs for more ruminations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23716\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PardonEnglish_1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PardonEnglish_1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PardonEnglish_1024x536-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PardonEnglish_1024x536-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bienvenue a Quebec. Please leave your anglaise at the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1288],"class_list":["post-23693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-october-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23718,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23693\/revisions\/23718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}