{"id":254116,"date":"2007-08-09T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/09\/andrey-kurkov-and-language\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:53","slug":"andrey-kurkov-and-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/09\/andrey-kurkov-and-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrey Kurkov and Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s SignandSight.com calls attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welt.de\/welt_print\/article1092039\/Lasst_alle_Sprachen_erklingen.html\">this article<\/a>  by Andrey Kurkov from <i>Welt Online<\/i> (in German) about the language war going on in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>All these years I have protested against the plans to raise Russian to the second state language. Then finally I understood that everything was just a political game. It&#8217;s only the politicians that need a language debate. The people don&#8217;t have any such problems. The differences between Russian and Ukrainian are less than between German and Dutch. In Kiev, I often hear people asking a question in Russian that gets answered in Ukrainian, and no one is bothered in the least.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Article sounds interesting, and if you can get your hands on them, Kurkov&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.co.uk\/catalog\/author.htm?authorID=4211\">novels<\/a> are definitely worth checking out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s SignandSight.com calls attention to this article by Andrey Kurkov from Welt Online (in German) about the language war going on in Ukraine. All these years I have protested against the plans to raise Russian to the second state language. Then finally I understood that everything was just a political game. It&#8217;s only the politicians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[3666,2146],"class_list":["post-254116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-andrey-kurkov","tag-signandsight-com"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363586,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254116\/revisions\/363586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}