{"id":3923,"date":"2010-05-07T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2010-05-07T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T18:45:00","slug":"words-words-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3923","title":{"rendered":"Words. Words. Words."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nA few articles of interest from my lunchtime reading of the news&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Dongda Anus Hospital<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> We\u2019ve all made fun of it: Engrish, or more properly Chinglish&mdash;the poorly translated Chinese-to-English signage that is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2010\/05\/03\/world\/asia\/20100503_CHINGLISH.html?ref=asia\">so funny to read<\/a>. Well, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/03\/world\/asia\/03chinglish.html?src=me&amp;ref=homepage\">the NY Times has an article on Chinglish<\/a>, and how the Shanghai Commission for the Management of Language Use (perhaps we need one of those in the DOD) is working to correct the more egregous cases. However, some feel that Chinglish is an endangered species that deserves preservation.\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>I Don\u2019t Know Which is Scarier?<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> In reading my RSS feeds today, I saw the following Playbill headline: \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/139328-EXCLUSIVE-Flynn-to-Direct-and-Janki-to-Choreograph-Family-Matters-the-Musical\">Flynn to Direct and Janki to Choreograph Family Matters, the Musical<\/a>\u201d. This scared me, for it made me envision a musical version of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Family_Matters\"><i>Family Matters<\/i> sitcom<\/a>, with a singing and dancing Steve Urkel and all the other members of the Winslow family. Then I read the article and got scared a second time: they weren\u2019t talking about <i>Family Matters<\/i>, the sitcom, they were referring to \u201cThe Berenstain Bears in Family Matters, the Musical.\u201d. Singing and dancing Berenstain Bears. Argh. Where\u2019s that brain bleach when you need it.<\/ul>\n<p>And this, this pointless poll:<\/p>\n<p><lj-poll-1561447><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A few articles of interest from my lunchtime reading of the news&#8230; From the \u201cDongda Anus Hospital\u201d Department: We\u2019ve all made fun of it: Engrish, or more properly Chinglish&mdash;the poorly translated Chinese-to-English signage that is so funny to read. Well, the NY Times has an article on Chinglish, and how the Shanghai Commission for <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3923\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-lj-xfer","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}