{"id":233,"date":"2013-02-28T09:26:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T00:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seanmisen.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2013-02-28T09:26:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T00:26:40","slug":"english-made-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/uncategorized\/english-made-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"English, Made in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post has been slowly fermenting in my drafts folder, waiting futilely for me to add enough to it to make it publish-worthy. \u00a0But I think I will simply publish it and make it a work in progress. \u00a0If you have any interesting bits of <em>wasei eigo<\/em> (Made-in-Japan English) please leave a comment and I&#8217;ll add it to the post. Dumb puns and other wordplays are equally accepted. \u00a0I&#8217;m not really interested in attested (dictionary) words here but more in the creative usage that people casually bring to life in their daily lives.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Vice Principal<\/em> &#8211; &#8220;<strong>Half Middle President<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Ok, kids, this fruit starts with &#8216;water&#8217; and the second half is the name of a fruit we&#8217;ve already learned today.&#8221; &#8211;<\/em>\u00a0<strong>Waterpeach!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s the opposite of hungry?<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; &#8220;<strong>uphungry!<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Lamentable<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Ramen, taberu? (\u30e9\u30fc\u30e1\u30f3\u98df\u3079\u308b\uff1f)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post has been slowly fermenting in my drafts folder, waiting futilely for me to add enough to it to make it publish-worthy. \u00a0But I think I will simply publish it and make it a work in progress. \u00a0If you have any interesting bits of wasei eigo (Made-in-Japan English) please leave a comment and I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}