{"id":391,"date":"2004-05-22T18:07:21","date_gmt":"2004-05-22T06:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=391"},"modified":"2004-05-22T18:07:21","modified_gmt":"2004-05-22T06:07:21","slug":"borrowed-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/391","title":{"rendered":"Borrowed language"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon my sister Kathy and I watched Lost in Translation<\/em> (Roger Ebert review<\/a>)<\/small>. When the lights came on afterwards Kathy turned to me and I thought she said “That was crap” so I said “Well I really liked it”, but I’d misheard and she’d really said “That was great”, in fact “That<\/strong> was great”. It is nice that we agreed. It is a beautiful movie. Tokyo is so strange. <\/p>\n

Paul Simon said ‘“Kathy I’m lost” I said though I knew she was sleeping. “I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why.”’ You know that line written down needs some special kind of punctuation mark at the end, but English doesn’t have one that will fit. I don’t suppose any language does. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This afternoon my sister Kathy and I watched Lost in Translation (Roger Ebert review). When the lights came on afterwards Kathy turned to me and I thought she said “That was crap” so I said “Well I really liked it”, but I’d misheard and she’d really said “That was great”, in fact “That was great”. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}