{"id":750,"date":"2015-04-29T12:59:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T10:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=750"},"modified":"2015-04-29T12:59:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T10:59:28","slug":"english-mistakes-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/english-mistakes-from-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"English mistakes from around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As English has established itself as the world&#8217;s lingua franca (Verkehrssprache), more and more non-native speakers use English to communicate information to people who do not share their native language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The results are sometimes interesting &#8211; from the plain wrong to the truly weird. 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