{"id":178,"date":"2003-02-02T23:25:57","date_gmt":"2003-02-02T23:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20030202232557"},"modified":"2003-06-30T23:20:59","modified_gmt":"2003-06-30T23:20:59","slug":"02022003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2003\/02\/02022003\/","title":{"rendered":"European weblogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a small debate on the use of English on the continent going on thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bearstrong.net\/warblog\/\">Bj\u00f8rn St\u00e6rk<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/tschwarz.blogspot.com\/2003_02_02_tschwarz_archive.html#88409175\">Tobias Schwarz<\/a> providing some dialogue.  It&#8217;s hard as a native English speaker, who knows no other languages, to comment on this issue with any level of authority.  One aspect I feel I can comment on is mentioned by Tobias, and that&#8217;s the use of English as the language between people who speak two different languages (in this case Germans and the French using English as a common language).<\/p>\n<p>The important aspect to this is not it&#8217;s evident benefit to the likes of me, but that it pushes forward the ideal of a Europe that can identify with it&#8217;s self.  A Europe that can speak a common language, along with it&#8217;s common currency, is a Europe full of people more likely to get along with one another.  In this sense any common choice of language would be fine, that it&#8217;s English just brings the bonus of being able to communicate with large chunks of the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>I can definitely agree with Bj\u00f8rn in welcoming the opportunity to read the views of Continentals in English.  I&#8217;ve tried to track down European weblogs that are written in English, and I&#8217;ve not had much luck.  The most promising <a href=\"http:\/\/netdyslexia.editthispage.com\/euroblogs\/\">list<\/a> I found does not break up the weblogs by language, and seems to feature many broken links.  Maybe I should start a list myself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a small debate on the use of English on the continent going on thanks to Bj\u00f8rn St\u00e6rk, with Tobias Schwarz providing some dialogue. It&#8217;s hard as a native English speaker, who knows no other languages, to comment on this issue with any level of authority. One aspect I feel I can comment on is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}