{"id":68222,"date":"2025-02-01T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T14:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=68222"},"modified":"2025-02-01T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T14:27:08","slug":"who-is-who-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=68222","title":{"rendered":"\"WHO is who it is\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-the-worldhealth-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\">Recent events<\/a> invite a reprise of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5FsJe4DScDs?si=kZkxRSmQAw7oHmku&amp;t=33\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the famous Abbot and Costello skit<\/a> &#8212; and Josh Johnson has obliged:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"(Some of) Trump\u2019s Wildest Executive Orders Explained\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0-FWOKzWpXU?start=160&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The skit wouldn't work for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/fr\/home\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Organisation mondiale de la Sant\u00e9<\/em><\/a> in French, or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/es\/home\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Organizaci\u00f3n Mundial de la Salud<\/em><\/a> in Spanish, since OMS is not a word in either language. The Russian abbreviation (\u0412\u041e\u0417) doesn't lend itself to jokes either, as far as I can tell &#8212; readers may be able to tell us about options for Chinese and Arabic.<\/p>\n<p>German, Japanese, Portuguese, Hindi, etc. are not among the languages that WHO offers:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/WHO_Languages.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Presumably WHO follows the United Nations in this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/UN_Languages.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/UN_Languages.png\" width=\"490\" title=\"Click to embiggen\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent events invite a reprise of the famous Abbot and Costello skit &#8212; and Josh Johnson has obliged:<\/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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68222","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=68222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68225,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68222\/revisions\/68225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}