{"id":8615,"date":"2005-09-27T12:38:15","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T19:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/09\/27\/words-mean-things-13.html"},"modified":"2005-09-27T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T19:38:15","slug":"words_mean_thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/words_mean_thin.html","title":{"rendered":"Words mean things"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fun BBC article about some interesting foreign phrases<\/a> that don’t make it into the guide books or language classes. One of my favorites: the Japanese katahara itai<\/em>, which means laughing so much you get a stitch in your side.<\/p>\n

Good fodder for writing, as well as for roleplay.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fun BBC article about some interesting foreign phrases that don’t make it into the guide books or language classes. One of my favorites: the Japanese katahara itai, which means…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9422,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/10\/interesting_tim.html","url_meta":{"origin":8615,"position":0},"title":"Interesting times","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Jul-06 8:38am","format":false,"excerpt":"Everyone has heard the old Chinese phrase\/curse, \"May you live in interesting times.\"\u00a0 Interestingly enough, it may not actually be an old Chinese phrase\/curse.\u00a0 Nor is the ideogram for \"crisis\"...","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10087,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/how_languages_c.html","url_meta":{"origin":8615,"position":1},"title":"How languages change","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Sep-06 7:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"Remarkable article on Language Log about how everyday Turkish is being changed by the media. 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