{"id":19320,"date":"2015-06-03T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T19:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=19320"},"modified":"2015-06-03T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T19:04:54","slug":"writing-english-with-chinese-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=19320","title":{"rendered":"Writing English with Chinese characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sign on a pet-grooming place in Banqiao, Taiwan (contributed by Mark Swofford):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/douge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/douge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">D\u00f2ug\u00e9 ch\u01d2ngw\u00f9 m\u011bixu\u00e9gu\u01cen \u8373\u683c\u5bf5\u7269\u7f8e\u5b78\u9928<br \/>\n(\"Douge \/ Dog Pet Grooming School\")<\/p>\n<p>d\u00f2ug\u00e9 \u8373\u683c (lit., \"bean \/ pulse cell \/ grid\") makes no sense in Chinese.\u00a0 It is the name of the school, but it is meant to evoke the English word \"dog\".<\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me of this:<\/p>\n<p>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Spelling with Chinese           character(istic)s\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=8580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\">Spelling with Chinese character(istic)s<\/a> \" (11\/21\/13)<\/p>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<p>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to To all aspiring pet         phoneticians out there\" href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=18160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\">To all aspiring pet phoneticians out there<\/a> \" (3\/12\/15)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign on a pet-grooming place in Banqiao, Taiwan (contributed by Mark Swofford):<\/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":[257,194,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bilingualism","category-borrowing","category-writing-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19320","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=19320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19333,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19320\/revisions\/19333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}