{"id":208,"date":"2004-08-15T08:24:28","date_gmt":"2004-08-15T13:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=208"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"lost_in_transla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/15\/lost_in_transla\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Mutineers &#8211; I&#8217;m <i>en route<\/i> to a biz trip so posting will continue to be light BUT, I did want to point out this list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2004\/08\/lost_in_transla.html\">&#8220;Hard to Translate Words&#8221;<\/a> from Marginal Revolution.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>1 ilunga [Tshiluba word for a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time; to tolerate it a second time; but never a third time. Note: Tshiluba is a Bantu language spoken in south-eastern Congo, and Zaire]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Alas, this list appears far from comprehensive &#8211; there&#8217;s only a single Desi word &#8211;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>8 selathirupavar [Tamil for a certain type of truancy]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I have no idea what it means&#8230; any candidates for other devilishly hard to translate terms from the homeland, <i>beta<\/i>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Mutineers &#8211; I&#8217;m en route to a biz trip so posting will continue to be light BUT, I did want to point out this list of &#8220;Hard to Translate Words&#8221; from Marginal Revolution. 1 ilunga [Tshiluba word for a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/15\/lost_in_transla\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}