{"id":6809,"date":"2023-09-10T05:50:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T05:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/?p=6809"},"modified":"2023-09-10T05:50:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T05:50:24","slug":"donkey-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/uncategorized\/donkey-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Donkey-Bridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6810 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Donkey-Bridge.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Donkey-Bridge-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, do you use \u2018donkey bridges\u2019 for English words you just cannot remember? Of course, the official translation of \u2018Eselsbr\u00fccke\u2019 is \u2018mnemonic\u2019, a word I\u2019ve just had to look up twice to get the right spelling, so definitely a word you can forget \ud83d\ude0a. My inofficial translation is much nicer don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is your favourite? I often talk about the \u2018Alice\u2019 tense (I have been doing \u2026) from the Smokie song (&#8230; for 24 years I\u2019ve been living next to Alice), a tip I got from a former student Irmina many years ago. It\u2019s great to just be able to say \u2018Alice\u2019 and my students know exactly what they should have said!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like Christoph\u2019s way to remember the difference between angry and afraid \u2013 he just thinks about the game \u2018Angry Birds\u2019 \u2013 good one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And his partner Ilona remembers the difference between expensive and afraid by thinking that expensive is a longer and more exclusive word \u2026 also nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you have any good ones?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My favourite German one is thinking about dozy (tired) lecturers at college for \u2018Dozent\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There actually is a donkey bridge in England, a peaceful bridge in the woods built in 1709 to carry packhorses, so we can think of the word in a nice way to help us to communicate in a peaceful way in English! I especially like this peaceful photo of a donkey carrying other animals \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, do you use \u2018donkey bridges\u2019 for English words you just cannot remember? Of course, the official translation of \u2018Eselsbr\u00fccke\u2019 is \u2018mnemonic\u2019, a word I\u2019ve just had to look up twice to get the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6813,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions\/6813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}