{"id":12763,"date":"2016-08-18T14:36:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T13:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12763"},"modified":"2016-08-18T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T13:36:19","slug":"eating-sideways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12763","title":{"rendered":"Eating sideways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Japanese word I came across today in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/articles\/untranslatables.htm\">an article on &#8216;untranslatable&#8217; words<\/a> is <strong>\u6a2a\u98ef<\/strong> (yokomeshi) which is used to describe the stress of speaking a foreign language. <\/p>\n<p>It comes from \u6a2a (yoko &#8211; horizontal) and \u98ef (meshi &#8211; boiled rice, a meal, food), and could be translated as &#8216;a meal eaten sideways&#8217;. This refers to the fact that Japanese is often written vertically, while most other languages are written horizontally.<\/p>\n<p>Are there words of expressions in other languages that have a similar meaning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Japanese word I came across today in an article on &#8216;untranslatable&#8217; words is \u6a2a\u98ef (yokomeshi) which is used to describe the stress of speaking a foreign language. It comes from \u6a2a (yoko &#8211; horizontal) and \u98ef (meshi &#8211; boiled rice, a meal, food), and could be translated as &#8216;a meal eaten sideways&#8217;. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,129,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-japanese","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}