{"id":2114,"date":"2005-08-28T04:57:41","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T09:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2114"},"modified":"2005-08-28T20:50:10","modified_gmt":"2005-08-29T01:50:10","slug":"checkered_compr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/28\/checkered_compr\/","title":{"rendered":"Checkered translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/HindiCabAd.jpg\" align=baseline border=0><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p align=left>Seen atop a NYC cab: &#8216;Hum vahan vyavsaya ke liye jaathe hain,&#8217; &#8216;we go there for business&#8217; (thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002114.html#comment22716\">skk<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n<p align=left>I love the non-translation. It&#8217;s like the out-joke in&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/archive\/lost_in_translation.html\">Lost in Translation<\/a> <\/em>when the <em>enfant terrible<\/em> director rants at length in Japanese:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px\">\n<p align=left><strong>Ms. Kawasaki: <\/strong>He want you to turn and look in camera. Okay? <br \/><strong>Bob (Bill Murray): <\/strong>Is that all he said? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0335266\/quotes\">Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p align=left>On the other hand, they skipped the obvious alliteration: &#8216;Don&#8217;t dilly-dally, Delhi daily.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seen atop a NYC cab: &#8216;Hum vahan vyavsaya ke liye jaathe hain,&#8217; &#8216;we go there for business&#8217; (thanks, skk). I love the non-translation. It&#8217;s like the out-joke in&nbsp;Lost in Translation when the enfant terrible director rants at length in Japanese: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/28\/checkered_compr\/\">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":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}