{"id":703415,"date":"2010-03-29T06:23:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T10:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2010-03-29T06:23:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T10:23:22","slug":"my-hovercraft-is-full-of-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/703415","title":{"rendered":"My hovercraft is full of ham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Doonesbury explores the problem of over-ambitious translation:<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-2215\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/DBPushto.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/DBPushto.gif?w=475\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is more realistic, but less funny, than the classic Monty Python <em>Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook<\/em> sketch:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G6D1YI-41ao&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>(And then there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/000239.html\">Sir Richard Burton&#8217;s English\/Harari Phrasebook<\/a>, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=j-EYAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=%22FIrst%20Footsteps%20in%20East%20Africa%22&amp;pg=PA166#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false\">appendix<\/a> to First Footsteps in East Africa&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Doonesbury explores the problem of over-ambitious translation: This is more realistic, but less funny, than the classic Monty Python Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook sketch: (And then there&#8217;s Sir Richard Burton&#8217;s English\/Harari Phrasebook, from the appendix to First Footsteps in East Africa&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WZp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}