{"id":10713,"date":"2015-05-14T02:32:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T06:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=10713"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:04","slug":"just-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2015\/05\/just-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by the similarites and differences among languages.\u00a0 Consider for example how this common expression is said in various tongues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>English: The king is dead.<\/li>\n<li>Dutch: <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"nl\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"hps\">De koning<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">is dood<\/span><span class=\"\">.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Danish: <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"da\"><span class=\"hps\">Kongen<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">er d\u00f8d<\/span><span class=\"\">.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>French: <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"fr\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"hps\">Le roi est mort<\/span><span class=\"\">.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Italian: <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"it\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"hps\">Il re \u00e8 morto<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Turkish: <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"tr\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"hps\">Kral<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">\u00f6ld\u00fc.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Nyasa: <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"ny\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"hps\">Mfumu<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">wafa<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Maori: <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"mi\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"hps\">Kua mate<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">te<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">kingi<\/span><span class=\"\">.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Hmong: <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"hmn\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"hps\">Tus huab tais<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">yog<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">tuag<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Nashville: <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"ny\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"hps\">Elvis has left the building.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One more nugget from Google Translate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"zh-CN\" tabindex=\"-1\">\u738b is the Chinese symbol for king.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"zh-CN\" tabindex=\"-1\">\u732b\u738b is the Chinese symbol for Elvis &#8212; literally, cat king.\u00a0 (It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/#en\/zh-CN\/Elvis%2C%20Cat%20King\">true<\/a>.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this edition of Just Saying.\u00a0 Thank you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by the similarites and differences among languages.\u00a0 Consider for example how this common expression is said in various tongues: English: The king is dead. Dutch: De koning is dood. Danish: Kongen er d\u00f8d. French: Le roi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2015\/05\/just-saying\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-putts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10716,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713\/revisions\/10716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}