{"id":2325,"date":"2020-05-21T08:14:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T08:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2020-05-21T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T08:58:00","slug":"student-can-i-borrow-a-pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/student-can-i-borrow-a-pencil\/","title":{"rendered":"Student: Can I borrow a pencil?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Teacher:<\/strong>&nbsp;I don&#8217;t know, can you borrow a pencil?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Student:<\/strong>&nbsp;Aha, but I clearly meant to ask for permission. Since you and the rest of the class understood my intent perfectly well, and the word &#8220;may&#8221; to show permission is rapidly falling out of fashion, there is nothing wrong with asking you whether I can borrow a pencil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <div style=\"margin-top:50px; margin-bottom:5px; text-align:center; color:#c1bdbd;\">ADVERTISEMENT<\/div>\r\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Jokes -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6695910881285465\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9339555086\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/br><\/br><\/br>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Teacher:<\/strong>&nbsp;Possibly so, in colloquial speech. Discerning context can help us decipher the nuance of each sentence on a case-by-case basis. However, as your teacher, my task is to teach you the intricacies and nuances of the English language with rigor, so that you may have a greater mastery of the language in order to effectively and precisely control what you want to communicate. In this case, the difference between the words &#8220;can&#8221; and &#8220;may&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Student:<\/strong>&nbsp;Point taken. May I borrow a pencil?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Teacher:<\/strong>\u00a0No, you may not. The state cut funding for education again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jokePin-8-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2327\" width=\"236\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jokePin-8-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jokePin-8-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jokePin-8.png 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher:&nbsp;I don&#8217;t know, can you borrow a pencil? Student:&nbsp;Aha, but I clearly meant to ask for permission. Since you and the rest of the class understood my intent perfectly well,&#8230; <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[68,45,34,15],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jokes","tag-funn","tag-haha","tag-jokes","tag-lol"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfunwith.com\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}