{"id":262826,"date":"2008-06-24T12:55:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T12:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/06\/24\/i-think-this-is-a-translation-problem\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:32:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:32:06","slug":"i-think-this-is-a-translation-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/06\/24\/i-think-this-is-a-translation-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think This Is a Translation Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

From CNN:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Local dishes like “Husband and wife’s lung slice” or “Chicken without sexual life” conjure lots of furrowed eyebrows on famished foreigners.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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So, with the Olympics a few short weeks away, China is giving its cuisine a linguistic makeover.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It is proposing that restaurants change the names of exotic, but bizarrely named, delicacies to make them more delectable for the estimated 50,000 visitors arriving in August for the Summer Games.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The appetizer “Husband and wife’s lung slice” is taking on the more appetizing “Beef and ox tripe in chili sauce.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“Chicken without sexual life” has been transformed into “Steamed pullet.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The government has put down more than 2,000 proposed names in a 170-page book that it has offered to Beijing hotels, according to state media.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From CNN: Local dishes like “Husband and wife’s lung slice” or “Chicken without sexual life” conjure lots of furrowed eyebrows on famished foreigners. So, with the Olympics a few short weeks away, China is giving its cuisine a linguistic makeover. It is proposing that restaurants change the names of exotic, but bizarrely named, delicacies to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[12876,1836,12886],"class_list":["post-262826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cnn","tag-cwp","tag-weird-translations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262826","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\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357816,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262826\/revisions\/357816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}