{"id":347,"date":"2005-09-02T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=347"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:35:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:35:36","slug":"english-or-swedish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"English or Swedish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Finnish by birth, live in Sweden, but write this blog in English. Why?<\/p>\n<p>A vast majority of the world&#8217;s Internet servers run on old *nix variants and will choke on just about any character beyond ASCII in a URL. There&#8217;s a reasonable chance that the Swedish vowels \u00c3\u00a5, \u00c3\u00a4, and \u00c3\u00b6 aren&#8217;t displayed correctly in your browser, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">even<\/span> if you happen to live in Sweden and use a localized browser and a ditto OS. And, of course, even Swedes seem to prefer English to their native language, judging from TV commercials, newspaper ads, and whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>We can send people to space (yes, I know, we may not always get them back in one piece so there&#8217;s stuff to be perfected there, too) but is all this really beyond us?<\/p>\n<p>Then again, a potential readership of more than a quarter of a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">billion<\/span> readers instead of a little less than nine <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">million<\/span> does have its advantages, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Finnish by birth, live in Sweden, but write this blog in English. Why? A vast majority of the world&#8217;s Internet servers run on old *nix variants and will choke on just about any character beyond ASCII in a URL. There&#8217;s a reasonable chance that the Swedish vowels \u00c3\u00a5, \u00c3\u00a4, and \u00c3\u00b6 aren&#8217;t displayed correctly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}