{"id":8910,"date":"2013-07-16T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8910"},"modified":"2013-07-16T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:29:03","slug":"eavesdropping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8910","title":{"rendered":"Eavesdropping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day last week I was walking through town and saw a couple walking nearby &#8211; a Chinese woman with a Western man. I wondered what language they were speaking to each other, so I eavesdropped and heard that it was Mandarin. This surprised me as it&#8217;s rare, in my experience, to hear non-Chinese people speaking Mandarin, especially round here. I was considering going over to introduce myself and finding out how the guy had learned Mandarin, but by that time they&#8217;d gone off in different direction.<\/p>\n<p>If you speak a lesser-studied language and hear someone speaking it in public, would you go and talk to them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day last week I was walking through town and saw a couple walking nearby &#8211; a Chinese woman with a Western man. I wondered what language they were speaking to each other, so I eavesdropped and heard that it was Mandarin. This surprised me as it&#8217;s rare, in my experience, to hear non-Chinese people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}