{"id":1150,"date":"2010-03-14T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T14:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2010-03-14T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T14:39:07","slug":"mixed-metaphore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2010\/03\/14\/mixed-metaphore\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed metaphore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbled onto Wikipedia&#8217;s article on <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perronisme\">perronismes<\/a>, which reminds me of English mixed metaphors.<\/p>\n<p>Never quite having fully grasped what a mixed metaphor was (and being unable to come up with them on demand), I found the examples presented here interesting. Perhaps they&#8217;re easier to see when it&#8217;s not your native language? Plus&#8212;it&#8217;s always a joy when such things can be translated correctly, with the right amount of awkwardness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Atteindre la lumi\u00e8re au fond du baril&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;To reach the light at the bottom of the barrel&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;La for\u00eat vierge est une for\u00eat o\u00f9 la main de l\u2019homme n\u2019a jamais mis le pied. &#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Virgin forest is a forest where the hand of man has never set foot.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbled onto Wikipedia&#8217;s article on perronismes, which reminds me of English mixed metaphors. Never quite having fully grasped what a mixed metaphor was (and being unable to come up with them on demand), I found the examples presented here interesting. Perhaps they&#8217;re easier to see when it&#8217;s not your native language? Plus&#8212;it&#8217;s always a joy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[20,134],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snippet","tag-francais","tag-word-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}