{"id":228,"date":"2006-11-22T21:42:44","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T20:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/22\/art-and-aliens\/"},"modified":"2006-11-22T21:42:44","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T20:42:44","slug":"art-and-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Art and aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It struck me today that the Irish word for artists, <em>eala\u00edont\u00f3ir\u00ed<\/em>, sounds like &#8216;alien tory&#8217;. I hadn&#8217;t really noticed this before. When I hear or read the word, it usually brings to mind artists and art, though hearing it out of context triggered the thoughts of extraterrestrial members of the Conservative Party.<\/p>\n<p>I try to think in the languages I&#8217;m studying as much as possible, and to picture in my mind the things and actions I hear or read about. Sometimes I only notice that a foreign word sounds funny to English speakers when someone who doesn&#8217;t speak the language points this out to me, or if my brain is in English mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It struck me today that the Irish word for artists, eala\u00edont\u00f3ir\u00ed, sounds like &#8216;alien tory&#8217;. I hadn&#8217;t really noticed this before. When I hear or read the word, it usually brings to mind artists and art, though hearing it out of context triggered the thoughts of extraterrestrial members of the Conservative Party. I try to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,10,13,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish","category-language","category-language-learning","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","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=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}