{"id":778,"date":"2009-03-01T14:04:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T21:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=778"},"modified":"2009-05-16T17:32:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T00:32:45","slug":"epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2009\/03\/01\/epiphany\/","title":{"rendered":"Epiphany!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=1181\">Language Log<\/a> there&#8217;s a post about being terrified at not being able to read in a foreign country (in this case, Hong Kong SAR). One of the commenters points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had gathered that the &#8220;ideogram&#8221; thing was a myth \u2014 that Chinese script is really a syllabary, and that Cantonese speakers said to read &#8220;Chinese&#8221; are really bilingual, and reading transcribed Mandarin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how much I agree with the first part (written Chinese as a syllabary? You&#8217;re going to have to dredge up a bit more evidence for that one) but the second part is true, true, true.<\/p>\n<p>Now I realize why I only learned to recognize characters in Chinese school, and not to write&#8211;I would have had to learn a whole other language.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>That said, I admit to having the same fear (apropos de journal articles, for example). It&#8217;s terrifying to look at a page of text and realize you can&#8217;t read it and have no idea what it says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Language Log there&#8217;s a post about being terrified at not being able to read in a foreign country (in this case, Hong Kong SAR). One of the commenters points out: I had gathered that the &#8220;ideogram&#8221; thing was a myth \u2014 that Chinese script is really a syllabary, and that Cantonese speakers said [&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":[47,18],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snippet","tag-chinese","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}