{"id":528,"date":"2010-04-20T07:25:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T06:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/?p=528"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:15","slug":"idea-eu-prize-for-learning-all-of-the-european-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2010\/04\/20\/idea-eu-prize-for-learning-all-of-the-european-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Idea: EU prize for learning all of the European languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the nature of the European cooperation, I propose that the European Union should give out prizes to people who can speak significant numbers of european languages.<br \/>\nPerhaps 1 million euros for a person speaking all of the EU significant languages.<\/p>\n<p>Then smaller prizes for people who speak some fraction (5 or 10 different languages perhaps)<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know how many people could manage the million euro level (perhaps only a few hundred people, maybe even none?) but it would be a good thing to encourage us all to speak each other&#8217;s languages.<\/p>\n<p>It would also offer a clear and obvious reward to study languages. (Like winning the lottery, just more predictably achievable)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the nature of the European cooperation, I propose that the European Union should give out prizes to people who can speak significant numbers of european languages. Perhaps 1 million euros for a person speaking all of the EU significant languages. Then smaller prizes for people who speak some fraction (5 or 10 different languages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}