{"id":1217,"date":"2006-03-03T16:21:55","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T15:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:16:07","slug":"how-to-effectively-ruin-your-english-language-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/2006\/03\/how-to-effectively-ruin-your-english-language-skills.htm","title":{"rendered":"How to effectively ruin your English language skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get a job in a global company outside the UK or the USA, and make sure to have lots of international contacts.<\/p>\n<p>First you will drop all colloquialisms and phrasal verbs. Your Greek colleague doesn\u2019t understand what you\u2019re trying to say by \u201cI\u2019ll just get changed\u201d, so you resort to \u201cI will put on different clothes\u201d instead.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly you will adjust your pronunciation. As the whole company seems to have agreed on pronouncing measure &#8220;meesha&#8221; they will have problems understanding your correct pronunciation. The same goes for invitation being pronounced &#8220;invaiteishn&#8221;. (&#8220;Shuhl&#8221; instead of school even has a charmingly Jiddish touch&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Finally you sever any connection between the language you use and its country of origin by using customised vocabulary: Everybody in your company calls a folder \u201cmap\u201d? You better adjust if you want to have a useful conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get a job in a global company outside the UK or the USA, and make sure to have lots of international contacts. First you will drop all colloquialisms and phrasal verbs. Your Greek colleague doesn\u2019t understand what you\u2019re trying to say by \u201cI\u2019ll just get changed\u201d, so you resort to \u201cI will put on different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117927,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/117927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}