{"id":257426,"date":"2007-11-05T14:04:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T14:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/11\/05\/phrases-that-just-dont-translate\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:13","slug":"phrases-that-just-dont-translate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/11\/05\/phrases-that-just-dont-translate\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrases that just don&#39;t translate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Mirror<\/em> has a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/weirdworld\/2007\/10\/23\/weird-and-wondrful-foreign-phrases-89520-19993239\/\">untranslatable phrases<\/a> from around the world. There are a lot of goodies, but my favorite has to be: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Bayram Degil<\/em> (as in: Seyran degil eniste beni niye optu?) Turkish: there must be something behind this. Literally, &#8220;it&#8217;s not festival time, it&#8217;s not a pleasure trip, so why did my brother-in-law kiss me&#8221;? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mirror has a list of untranslatable phrases from around the world. There are a lot of goodies, but my favorite has to be: Bayram Degil (as in: Seyran degil eniste beni niye optu?) Turkish: there must be something behind this. Literally, &#8220;it&#8217;s not festival time, it&#8217;s not a pleasure trip, so why did my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2136],"class_list":["post-257426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361306,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257426\/revisions\/361306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}