{"id":21748,"date":"2021-12-22T20:39:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21748"},"modified":"2021-12-24T11:50:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T11:50:59","slug":"perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21748","title":{"rendered":"Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the Winter Solstice, at least here in the Northern Hemisphere. It was the shortest day of the year, and from now on the days will get longer.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/64712052@N00\/49256073777\/in\/photolist-2i3AfFk-2kjcoLy-2ktK9u7-itFepo-21CGQVj-ivPL4v-P7PpDa-2k4jRHA-2kjf33x-WBRHQ5-itFxpo-CfJwzU-EDgpWj-PWBBSs-aZakRH-5LizfB-PXpuK3-Qgg1Ag-93gJcU-xTgU9w-Hrx2AZ-5LizuZ-2kjhCv5-2khbVRD-xCZ7TQ-2mRZUWe-2kkWmyq-2mM3WiG-Q3vrNM-2mLYod8-BSr11F-22H19m3-2kjgaGn-2i3thEE-MW6mHE-Qna6cv-qcPQYP-2kjfnTE-2mS1bNi-NhvZgc-PRweG9-95dL5Z-2mdMfuJ-RMFtQ4-qsrrx6-Pdh25G-2kjgaxK-Bx1iaY-2mRhTPR-BNQ1fM\" title=\"winter solstice sunrise\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49256073777_92bd9ca0d4_z.jpg\" alt=\"winter solstice sunrise\" width=\"640\" height=\"269\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This came up when I was talking to a Chinese friend yesterday, and she said that it was the longest night, and that the nights will get shorter from now on.<\/p>\n<p>It struck me that this was an interesting perspective, and I wondered if this was a culture difference or just her.<\/p>\n<p>Are the days getting longer or the nights getting shorter for you?<\/p>\n<p>Is the glass half full or half empty?<\/p>\n<p>Another thing I noticed recently is that the Dutch word <strong>lang<\/strong> means both long and tall. For example, to ask how tall someone is you would say &#8220;Hoe lang ben je?&#8221; (&#8220;How long are you?&#8221;), to which I would reply &#8220;Ik ben \u00e9\u00e9n meter zevenenzestig centimeter lang&#8221; (&#8220;I am 1m 67cm long&#8221;). When you translate it literally into English it sounds a bit strange, at least to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the Winter Solstice, at least here in the Northern Hemisphere. It was the shortest day of the year, and from now on the days will get longer. This came up when I was talking to a Chinese friend yesterday, and she said that it was the longest night, and that the nights will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,102,104,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-dutch","category-english","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21748","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=21748"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21757,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21748\/revisions\/21757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}