{"id":5125,"date":"2026-08-09T18:11:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T18:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2026-08-09T18:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T18:11:37","slug":"new-zealand-legislation-recognising-english-an-official-language-ridiculed-as-pathetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5125","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand legislation recognising English an official language ridiculed as \u2018pathetic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/03\/new-zealand-english-an-official-language-bill\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"New Zealand legislation recognising English an official language ridiculed as \u2018pathetic\u2019\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/25e0f42bef1b243987da186a6fe242e1c60be42b\/581_0_3750_3000\/master\/3750.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&amp;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&amp;overlay-width=100p&amp;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&amp;enable=upscale&amp;s=3d78ce619ce2e77fc85f37de3df73943\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.theguardian.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">New Zealand legislation recognising English an official language ridiculed as \u2018pathetic\u2019<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Passing of bill technically gives English same status as M\u0101ori and sign language but, with it already spoken by 95% of country, critics call it \u2018a pointless exercise\u2019<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-5125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politica","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5126,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions\/5126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}