{"id":7,"date":"2006-03-11T21:34:07","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T01:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2006-03-11T21:34:07","modified_gmt":"2006-03-12T01:34:07","slug":"lost-in-translation-very-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"lost in translation, very lost."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rahoi.com\/2006\/03\/may-i-take-your-order.php\">This is too silly<\/a> for words: a Chinese menu with literal word-for-word translations done from a colloquial dictionary. It gets steadily more surreal and vulgar as you scroll down until the characters meaning <span class=\"sane\">&#8220;Hot and spicy garlic greens stir-fried with shredded dried tofu.&#8221; <\/span> are translated into English as  <span class=\"loony\">&#8220;Benumbed hot vegetables fries fuck silk.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/002915.html#more\">Language Log<\/a> which also has a nicely laid out explanation of how that particular mistranslation came about.<\/p>\n\n<p>Now back to the politics of British Islam.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is too silly for words: a Chinese menu with literal word-for-word translations done from a colloquial dictionary. It gets steadily more surreal and vulgar as you scroll down until the characters meaning &#8220;Hot and spicy garlic greens stir-fried with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=7\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=7\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}