{"id":2624,"date":"2010-11-22T09:11:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T14:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/11\/22\/inarticulate-spaces\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T03:14:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T08:14:03","slug":"inarticulate-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/11\/22\/inarticulate-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Inarticulate spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAt <cite>Making Light<\/cite>, Abi talks about learning Dutch and, as with learning any language, <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/012711.html\">finding new concepts absent in her mother tongue<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut equally strange are the vocabulary items that teach me some concept which has been lurking all my life in the inarticulate space between the English words I know. One such word is anderhalf. Literally, it means \u201canother half\u201d, but it is actually \u201cone and a half\u201d.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThese &#8220;inarticulate spaces&#8221; are what most often trips me up when trying to write an English post about something I&#8217;ve only got Dutch sources of. Frex, why doesn&#8217;t English have an expression as simple as &#8220;<cite>er vraagtekens bij zetten<\/cite>&#8220;, putting question marks to some explenation offered to you? Or even as simple a concept as &#8220;<cite>bestuur<\/cite>&#8220;, a nebolous group of people who administrate an organisation and where it doesn&#8217;t matter who they are exactly? Or something generic like &#8220;<cite>gemeente<\/cite>&#8220;, not quite translateable with city council or municipality or &#8220;<cite>wijk<\/cite>&#8220;, which is not quite a neighbourhood and might be the same as a borough, though I&#8217;ve mostly seen that used for New York rather than as a generic term.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd why oh why is it so difficult to get an English translation of <cite>hottentottententoonstellingstentjetoegangspashoudercontroleur<\/cite>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Making Light, Abi talks about learning Dutch and, as with learning any language, finding new concepts absent in her mother tongue: But equally strange are the vocabulary items that teach me some concept which has been lurking all my life in the inarticulate space between the English words I know. One such word is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[305,2809,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekdom","category-lost-in-translation","category-oh-those-crazy-cloggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10496,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/10496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}