{"id":108,"date":"2009-02-15T23:17:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T14:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/?p=108"},"modified":"2009-02-15T23:17:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T14:17:50","slug":"the-past-tense-of-shave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2009\/02\/15\/the-past-tense-of-shave\/","title":{"rendered":"The past tense of shave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomo announced this morning as we were getting ready to go out that he had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153just shoaved.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  I learned that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shoaved\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the past tense of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shave.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  I had a good laugh at that, knowing that it sort of made sense but could not come up with a rule that would make shave go to shoaved.  Of course, we have the ride\/rode combination.  Compare that to the hide\/hid combination.  Or what about the make\/made combination?  Pay\/paid?  Write\/wrote?  Strike\/struck?  Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how anyone learns English.  I can recall in my Japanese class that my fellow classmates wanted some rules to follow for certain patterns.  Rules?  RULES?  Try learning English I bet.  The only rule is the exception.  Conjugation in Japanese is very easy \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and except for one or two exceptions, rules are followed.<\/p>\n<p>I caught Coldplay again tonight.  Again on the front row, and again violated.  We had a good time.  Pictures coming soon I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomo announced this morning as we were getting ready to go out that he had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153just shoaved.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I learned that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shoaved\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the past tense of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shave.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I had a good laugh at that, knowing that it sort of made sense but could not come up with a rule that would make shave go to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2009\/02\/15\/the-past-tense-of-shave\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The past tense of shave&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engrish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}