{"id":9376,"date":"2013-11-27T10:39:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T10:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=9376"},"modified":"2013-11-27T10:39:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T10:39:39","slug":"aw-snap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=9376","title":{"rendered":"Aw, Snap!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/awsnap.gif\" width=\"87\" height=\"87\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" alt=\"Aw, Snap!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I noticed recently that when a webpage crashes in the Google Chrome browser, you get an error message beginning with &#8220;Aw, Snap!&#8221;, which always amuses me. It&#8217;s not an expression I&#8217;ve ever used, and seeing it got me wondering whether it is in common use in other English-speaking countries. If you don&#8217;t use this expression, what others might you use in similar circumstances?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d probably say something like &#8220;Oops!&#8221; or &#8220;Oh dear!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What are equivalents of these expressions in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed recently that when a webpage crashes in the Google Chrome browser, you get an error message beginning with &#8220;Aw, Snap!&#8221;, which always amuses me. It&#8217;s not an expression I&#8217;ve ever used, and seeing it got me wondering whether it is in common use in other English-speaking countries. If you don&#8217;t use this expression, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376","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=9376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}