{"id":983,"date":"2003-03-17T20:55:43","date_gmt":"2003-03-18T04:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/03\/17\/983.html"},"modified":"2003-03-17T20:55:43","modified_gmt":"2003-03-18T04:55:43","slug":"francophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/03\/17\/francophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Francophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Webmaster Will, source of approximately 75% of all cool URLs, points to a cute <cite>Christian Science Monitor<\/cite> article titled \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2003\/0314\/p10s02-comv.html\">English Sans French<\/a>,\" which provides a perfect rebuttal to the remove-references-to-France crowd.  It's obvious in retrospect; I wish I'd thought of it.<\/p>\n<p>I'm obliquely reminded that a few years back, I attempted to use the word <span class=\"word-as-word\">sans<\/span> in some documentation.  (I think I was talking about VRML worlds with minimal <span class=\"foreign\">accoutrements,<\/span> \"sans life, sans color, sans sound, sans movement, <a href=\"http:\/\/phrases.shu.ac.uk\/meanings\/310600.html\">sans everything<\/a>\" or some such.)  (Hey, nifty!  I hadn't seen that <a href=\"http:\/\/phrases.shu.ac.uk\/\">Phrase Finder<\/a> site before; pretty cool.  I thought I would have to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeare.com\/\">shakespeare.com<\/a> for about the fifth time in the past couple days.)  All of the engineers who reviewed the chapter circled \"sans\" and indicated that they thought it was a typo&#8212;the only one who knew the word was the guy from France.  I was baffled; the word's been part of the English language since the 14th century.  But I gave in and rephrased it; if people weren't recognizing the reference, it wasn't funny anyway.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Webmaster Will, source of approximately 75% of all cool URLs, points to a cute Christian Science Monitor article titled &#8220;English&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}