{"id":16883,"date":"2015-01-05T23:10:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T04:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=16883"},"modified":"2015-01-05T23:10:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T04:10:09","slug":"wanton-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=16883","title":{"rendered":"Wanton soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In \"<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=11039\">Wantan soup for \u00fcberman hubby<\/a>\" (3\/15\/14), we discussed the miswriting of h\u00fant\u00fan t\u0101ng \u991b\u98e9\u6e6f (\"wonton soup\") as k\u016bnzh\u016bn t\u0101ng \u440a\u80ab\u6e6f (which I playfully rendered as \"wantan soup\"), using the \"flesh\" radical instead of the \"food\" radical for both characters.  Several of the commenters to that earlier post suggested that \"wanton\" would have been an appropriate mistranslation to match the miswriting.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNow, Janet Williams, who just returned from a trip to Singapore, provides abundant photographic documentation of that rendering in real life:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/wanton1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/wanton1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/wanton2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/wanton2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/wanton3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/wanton3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/wanton4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/wanton4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let's hope that eating these dishes doesn't make you engage in malicious or lascivious behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \"Wantan soup for \u00fcberman hubby\" (3\/15\/14), we discussed the miswriting of h\u00fant\u00fan t\u0101ng \u991b\u98e9\u6e6f (\"wonton soup\") as k\u016bnzh\u016bn t\u0101ng \u440a\u80ab\u6e6f (which I playfully rendered as \"wantan soup\"), using the \"flesh\" radical instead of the \"food\" radical for both characters. Several of the commenters to that earlier post suggested that \"wanton\" would have been an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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":""},"categories":[222,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-food","category-lost-in-translation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16883"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16920,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16883\/revisions\/16920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}