{"id":14667,"date":"2017-10-20T18:13:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T17:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14667"},"modified":"2017-10-20T18:13:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T17:13:27","slug":"the-art-of-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14667","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/list.gif\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"List image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lists might be considered art, and there was an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/in_pictures\/8547022.stm\">exhibition of lists made by famous artists<\/a> some years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In Iceland art is a list &#8211; the Icelandic word of art is <strong>list<\/strong>. In Old Icelandic it also meant &#8220;craft, skill, adroitness, dexterity&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/norse.ulver.com\/dct\/zoega\/l.html\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>lista- = artistic<\/li>\n<li>listama\u00f0ur = artist<\/li>\n<li>listaverk = work of art<\/li>\n<li>listflutningur = live performance<\/li>\n<li>listh\u00fas = art gallery<\/li>\n<li>listmunur = artefact<\/li>\n<li>listvefna\u00f0ur = tapestry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dicts.info\/dictionary.php?l1=Icelandic&#038;l2=English&#038;word=list\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Incidently, a list in Icelandic is <strong>listi<\/strong> or <strong>skr\u00e1<\/strong>. Art in Danish and Norwegian is <em>kunst<\/em>, and it&#8217;s <em>konst<\/em> in Swedish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lists might be considered art, and there was an exhibition of lists made by famous artists some years ago. In Iceland art is a list &#8211; the Icelandic word of art is list. In Old Icelandic it also meant &#8220;craft, skill, adroitness, dexterity&#8221; [source]. Related words include: lista- = artistic listama\u00f0ur = artist listaverk = [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,104,124,10,31,36,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-english","category-icelandic","category-language","category-norwegian","category-old-norse","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667","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=14667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}