{"id":422,"date":"2006-08-27T15:58:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T15:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/"},"modified":"2006-08-27T15:58:42","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T15:58:42","slug":"more-bad-english-going-a-noun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/2006\/more-bad-english-going-a-noun\/","title":{"rendered":"More Bad English: Going a Noun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/ViennaGoesTennis.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/ViennaGoesTennis.html','popup','width=250,height=355,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/ViennaGoesTennis-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"213\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"25\" \/><\/a>I just love when someone gets something wrong, isn&#8217;t made aware of it, and then everyone does the exact same thing.<br \/>\nTake phrases such as &#8220;Vienna goes Tennis&#8221; for example. While still grammatically correct, they are ugly, bad, English. This kind of phrase structure has been popping up all over Austria and it&#8217;s really ridiculous that it hasn&#8217;t been stopped. What makes this usage even more ridiculous is that the comparable sentence in German would be &#8220;Wien geht Tennis&#8221;, which is just as incorrect in that language. I really want to know what genius first started the &#8220;Goes [Noun]&#8221; trend.<br \/>\n&#8220;Vienna goes Tennis&#8221; is currently being used as a new marketing phrase for the city&#8217;s annual tennis tournament, called BA\/CA TennisTrophy, that&#8217;s going to take place in October. The poster attached to this entry is presently posted all across town. The organizers of the tournament might draw a few additional younger attendees, but it&#8217;s also dumbing down the entire population of Vienna, which is now increasingly being taught that phrases such as &#8220;Vienna goes Tennis&#8221; are acceptable English.<br \/>\nAs if this tournament doesn&#8217;t already use enough bad English, why spell the name using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CamelCase\">CamelCase<\/a>!? It would be one word in German, true, but it&#8217;s two in English. Is it supposed to be some sort of compromise!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acceptance of bad English in Austria, or Europe as a whole. The BA\/CA TennisTrophy&#8217;s organizers slap posters with incorrect grammar all across Vienna that exclaim &#8220;Vienna goes Tennis&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[268,77,263,258,267,271,270,260,261,269,259,264,265,372,266,262,272],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}