{"id":288136,"date":"2011-11-14T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T15:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/11\/14\/honorary-powerful-support\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:16:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:16:50","slug":"honorary-powerful-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/11\/14\/honorary-powerful-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Honorary Powerful Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2011\/11\/12\/world\/asia\/chinese-products-in-translation.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em>,<\/a> there&#8217;s a neat interactive feature showing a bunch of Western products and what their names are when transliterated into Chinese. This kind of thing is always a fun diversion . . . Here are my personal favorites:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Citibank = Star-spangled banner bank<br \/>\nThis makes total sense, especially since Citibank really is all-American in their support of unequal wealth distribution and screwing the masses in favor of the 1%.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Heineken = Happiness power <br \/>\nThis really lends itself to bad pick-up lines: &#8220;Hey baby, I&#8217;m totally full of happiness power, you know what I&#8217;m saying?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Snickers = Honorary powerful support<br \/>\nI never thought a candy bar could sound so &#8220;of the Party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tide = Gets rid of dirt<br \/>\nSomehow this is a bit too direct for comfort.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/28-xue#vertical\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/756.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the New York Times, there&#8217;s a neat interactive feature showing a bunch of Western products and what their names are when transliterated into Chinese. This kind of thing is always a fun diversion . . . Here are my personal favorites: Citibank = Star-spangled banner bank This makes total sense, especially since Citibank [&hellip;]<\/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":[226,44026],"class_list":["post-288136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-new-york-times","tag-product-names-in-chinese"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288136","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=288136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342346,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288136\/revisions\/342346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}