{"id":48422,"date":"2020-09-10T09:17:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T14:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=48422"},"modified":"2020-09-10T09:17:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T14:17:25","slug":"a-detergent-used-to-assist-in-boredom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=48422","title":{"rendered":"\"A detergent used to assist in boredom\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/SavonVaiselleBoredom.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/SavonVaiselleBoredom.png\" width=\"220\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>A new kind of Artificial non-Intelligence? A subversive easter egg of human origin? I'm not sure, but in the course of researching preposition usage, I discovered an odd result of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22savon+vaisselle%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google searches for terms in various languages for dish soap<\/a> &#8212; a panel (in English), attributed to Wikipedia, explaining that<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Dishwashing liquid, known as dishwashing soap, dish detergent and dish soap, is a detergent used to assist in boredom.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nA bigger screen shot:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/SavonVaisselleBoredom2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/SavonVaisselleBoredom2.png\" width=\"490\" title=\"Click to embiggen\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More later on the prepositions &#8212; meanwhile, any ideas about the boredom?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new kind of Artificial non-Intelligence? A subversive easter egg of human origin? I'm not sure, but in the course of researching preposition usage, I discovered an odd result of Google searches for terms in various languages for dish soap &#8212; a panel (in English), attributed to Wikipedia, explaining that Dishwashing liquid, known as dishwashing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wtf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48422","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48425,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48422\/revisions\/48425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}