{"id":681,"date":"2009-09-17T14:58:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T21:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/?p=681"},"modified":"2009-09-17T14:58:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T21:58:29","slug":"french-text-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/17\/french-text-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"French Text Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-684 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/files\/2009\/09\/onion-soup2.jpg\" alt=\"onion soup\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/files\/2009\/09\/onion-soup2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/files\/2009\/09\/onion-soup2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you boil down all the definitions of \u201ctext\u201d on medium heat and stirring often, what you get is essentially \u201clanguage\u201d soup. \u00a0 Like an onion, both concepts can be deeply layered and infinitely complex, but both have the same general purpose.\u00a0 Okay, so what is language then?\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s a system of communication.\u00a0 And what\u2019s the general purpose of an onion??\u00a0 Well, to give us bad breath and make us cry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you boil down all the definitions of \u201ctext\u201d on medium heat and stirring often, what you get is essentially \u201clanguage\u201d soup. \u00a0 Like an onion, both concepts can be deeply layered and infinitely complex, but both have the same general purpose.\u00a0 Okay, so what is language then?\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s a system of communication.\u00a0 And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4173,989,568,6810],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-communication","tag-definition","tag-language","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}