{"id":42684,"date":"2021-12-15T19:46:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=42684"},"modified":"2021-12-15T19:46:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T19:46:03","slug":"language-cultural-usage-mild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/language-cultural-usage-mild\/","title":{"rendered":"Language: cultural usage: &#8220;mild&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring a language, you reflect on difference in usage. The tutor makes an observation.<\/h2>\n<p>\nWhen I was a kid (in the Maritimes), and a day in winter was surprisingly warm and pleasant, an adult would describe it as &#8220;mild.&#8221; Kids didn&#8217;t say so; rather, a kid might say &#8220;warm&#8221; or &#8220;nice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The other day I was listening to French radio when someone reported the weather. In French, they described upcoming weather as &#8220;becoming milder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the west coast, I&#8217;ve only heard &#8220;mild&#8221; used to describe the weather by older people from eastern Canada.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.  \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring a language, you reflect on difference in usage. The tutor makes an observation. When I was a kid (in the Maritimes), and a day in winter was surprisingly warm and pleasant, an adult would describe it as &#8220;mild.&#8221; Kids &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/language-cultural-usage-mild\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Language: cultural usage: &#8220;mild&#8221;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42687,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42684\/revisions\/42687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}