{"id":47296,"date":"2022-05-16T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=47296"},"modified":"2022-05-15T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T13:43:12","slug":"qotd-the-difference-between-surface-meaning-and-actual-intent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/05\/16\/qotd-the-difference-between-surface-meaning-and-actual-intent\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The difference between surface meaning and actual intent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>A basic truism is that languages don&#8217;t map exactly over each other and that&#8217;s the most likely explanation for this database from China detailing &#8220;BreedReady&#8221; women. That languages don&#8217;t map exactly should be obvious even to the most monolingual of English speakers. We all know that &#8220;Let&#8217;s have lunch sometime&#8221; when said by an American means &#8220;Hope to see you never and definitely not while eating&#8221;. Similarly, &#8220;That&#8217;s lovely&#8221; when said by a Brit does not necessarily mean it is lovely and &#8220;How quaint&#8221; isn&#8217;t praise for the cuteness of the thing. A Californian invocation to meet Tuesday is in fact a rumination on the possible non-existence of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Worstall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.continentaltelegraph.com\/world\/that-chinese-breedready-database-check-the-translation\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;That Chinese &#8216;BreedReady&#8217; Database \u2013 Check The Translation&#8221;, <em>Continental Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, 2019-03-11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A basic truism is that languages don&#8217;t map exactly over each other and that&#8217;s the most likely explanation for this database from China detailing &#8220;BreedReady&#8221; women. That languages don&#8217;t map exactly should be obvious even to the most monolingual of English speakers. We all know that &#8220;Let&#8217;s have lunch sometime&#8221; when said by an American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22,57,41,13],"tags":[262,400],"class_list":["post-47296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-china","category-humour","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-culture","tag-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ciQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73655,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47296\/revisions\/73655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}