{"id":114,"date":"2005-01-20T12:41:57","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T16:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/20\/an-important-resource-for-travellers\/"},"modified":"2005-01-20T12:46:35","modified_gmt":"2005-01-20T16:46:35","slug":"an-important-resource-for-travellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/20\/an-important-resource-for-travellers\/","title":{"rendered":"An important resource for travellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, in the course of confirming today that <em>dans les vignes du Seigneur<\/em> meant what I thought it meant (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.notam02.no\/~hcholm\/altlang\/ht\/French.1.html#so39\">it does<\/a>), I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notam02.no\/~hcholm\/altlang\/\">The Alternative Dictionaries<\/a>, which describes itself as &#8216; a collection of various forms of &#8220;bad language&#8221; from many languages.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So, if you ever needed to know how that in Hungarian the colloquial form of &#8216;go to hell&#8217; translates literally as &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.notam02.no\/~hcholm\/altlang\/ht\/Hungarian.2.html#so122\">I send you to Death&#8217;s penis<\/a>&#8216;, or what the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notam02.no\/~hcholm\/altlang\/ht\/Irish_Gaelic.1.html#so7\">literal translation<\/a> of the Gaelic expression equivalent to &#8216;go for it&#8217; is, or that in Polish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notam02.no\/~hcholm\/altlang\/ht\/Polish.1.html#so21\">you can refer to sickness in general<\/a> (not just syphilis, as in many other European languages) by the word for &#8216;French&#8217;, you know where to go.<\/p>\n<p>I have to go learn some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notam02.no\/~hcholm\/altlang\/ht\/Italian.html\">Italian phrases<\/a> before my next phone call to the Sault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">So, in the course of confirming today that dans les vignes du Seigneur meant what I thought it meant (it does), I found The Alternative Dictionaries, which describes itself as &#8216; a collection of various forms of &#8220;bad language&#8221; from many languages.&#8217; So, if you ever needed to know how that in Hungarian the colloquial form of &#8216;go to hell&#8217;&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/20\/an-important-resource-for-travellers\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-1Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}