{"id":1671,"date":"2006-10-12T22:16:53","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T22:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2006-10-12T22:16:53","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T22:16:53","slug":"2006-10-12-oops-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"Oops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">People in my Arabic class yesterday were talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/07\/us\/07recruit.html?th=&#038;emc=th&#038;pagewanted=all\">this<\/a> New York Times story about an Arab-American army recruiter. A photo that ran with the story shows a T-shirt that reads &#8220;If you can read this&#8221; (in Arabic) and then below, &#8220;The National Guard needs you&#8221; (in English). But the grammar of the first line seems incorrect. Normally, after the conditional particle, the verb should be in the past, not the present. (I&#8217;d like native Arabic speakers to confirm this.) This would hardly be the first or most egregious mistake the US armed forces have made trying to communicate with Arabs..<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">People in my Arabic class yesterday were talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/07\/us\/07recruit.html?th=&#038;emc=th&#038;pagewanted=all\">this<\/a> New York Times story about an Arab-American army recruiter. A photo that ran with the story shows a T-shirt that reads &#8220;If you can read this&#8221; (in Arabic) and then below, &#8220;The National Guard needs you&#8221; (in English). But the grammar of the first line seems incorrect. Normally, after the conditional particle, the verb should be in the past, not the present. (I&#8217;d like native Arabic speakers to confirm this.) This would hardly be the first or most egregious mistake the US armed forces have made trying to communicate with Arabs..<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[229,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}