{"id":2908,"date":"2006-06-14T07:02:07","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T11:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/06\/14\/english-as-an-insulting-language\/"},"modified":"2006-06-14T07:02:07","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T11:02:07","slug":"english-as-an-insulting-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/06\/14\/english-as-an-insulting-language\/","title":{"rendered":"English as an Insulting Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8546'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/japinlis.jpg\" width=\"228\" height=\"169\" align=\"left\">They<br \/>\n        say the fastest ways to learn a foreign language are to fall in love<br \/>\n        or get sent to jail. Groundbreaking media like this are bound to put the<br \/>\n        Dowbrigade out of business, one way or another, sooner or later. This<br \/>\n        bizarre English language instruction, called Zuiikin Gals II, features<br \/>\n        sexy doll-like Japanese babes repeatedly chanting heart-warming English<br \/>\n        phrases like<br \/>\n        &quot;This is all your<br \/>\n        fault&quot; and &quot;I can&#8217;t stand the sight of you&quot;. We can&#8217;t wait to use this<br \/>\n        material with our students.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J5qoMfBJUeI\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say the fastest ways to learn a foreign language are to fall in love or get sent to jail. Groundbreaking media like this are bound to put the Dowbrigade out of business, one way or another, sooner or later. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/06\/14\/english-as-an-insulting-language\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}