{"id":9626,"date":"2011-06-02T12:16:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T16:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9626"},"modified":"2011-06-02T12:17:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T16:17:23","slug":"when-menu-translators-go-feral-timid-and-rapidly-grown-prostitutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/02\/when-menu-translators-go-feral-timid-and-rapidly-grown-prostitutes\/","title":{"rendered":"When menu translators go feral: &#8220;Timid and rapidly grown prostitutes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=3176\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Mair<\/a> finds the menu items lost something, but gained humour, in the translation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The basic B\u00e8n School Method seems to be to look each content word up in a bilingual dictionary, and to pick the most amusing and least grammatical option among the alternatives on offer. The word order of the translation seems to be a semi-random compromise among the various languages involved.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Tom Vinson for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Mair finds the menu items lost something, but gained humour, in the translation: The basic B\u00e8n School Method seems to be to look each content word up in a bilingual dictionary, and to pick the most amusing and least grammatical option among the alternatives on offer. The word order of the translation seems to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[74,57],"tags":[400],"class_list":["post-9626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-humour","tag-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2vg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626","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=9626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9628,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}