{"id":15190,"date":"2018-02-19T17:22:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15190"},"modified":"2018-02-19T17:22:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:22:11","slug":"pining-for-the-fjords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15190","title":{"rendered":"Pining for the fjords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/exphone.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"An image of a dead mobile phone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last week my phone stopped working when I was in the middle of a Russian lesson on Duolingo. It never objected to me learning Russian, or any other language, before, so I don&#8217;t know why it chose that moment to cease functioning. I took it to a phone repair shop, but unfortunately they couldn&#8217;t help, so I bought a new one.<\/p>\n<p>I could say that old phone died, it gave up the ghost, it packed-up, it&#8217;s finished, it&#8217;s kaput, and has had it. Or to paraphrase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218\">Monty Python&#8217;s Dead Parrot scetch<\/a>, it&#8217;s resting, it&#8217;s stunned, it&#8217;s probably pining for the fjords, it has ceased to be, it has expired, and it is an ex-phone.<\/p>\n<p>The sketch was about a dead Norwegian blue parrot, hence the reference to the fjords. My ex-phone was made in Korea, so perhaps it&#8217;s pining for the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any other ways to say that something has stopped working?<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernmom.com\/e38bf636-5ebb-11e3-9dff-bc764e0546c6.html\">www.modernmom.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week my phone stopped working when I was in the middle of a Russian lesson on Duolingo. It never objected to me learning Russian, or any other language, before, so I don&#8217;t know why it chose that moment to cease functioning. I took it to a phone repair shop, but unfortunately they couldn&#8217;t help, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190","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=15190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}