{"id":166,"date":"2003-08-21T18:31:23","date_gmt":"2003-08-21T23:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/08\/21\/amusing-links-for-today\/"},"modified":"2003-08-21T18:31:23","modified_gmt":"2003-08-21T23:31:23","slug":"amusing-links-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/08\/21\/amusing-links-for-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Amusing Links for Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a83'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are some really amusing links at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stormwerks.com\/linked\/\">\/usr\/bin\/girl<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stud.ntnu.no\/~shane\/stasj\/div_bilder\/signals.png\">Glossary of Military Hand Signals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/echo.colum.edu\/back\/winspr02\/intensecity1.html\">Bad Kanji<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The military hand signals is amusing.  The second link is hilarious.   For years I think ENglish speakers have made a point of pointing out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engrish.com\/\">really bad uses<\/a> of English by Japanese.  If you look at some of the Chinese characters (aka kanji) showing up on people&#8217;s shirts and stuff these days I&#8217;d have to say the tables are reversed.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d have to be really dumb (or brave) to be walking around with:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/echo.colum.edu\/back\/winspr02\/images\/symbol1.gif\"><\/p>\n<p>(Follow the Bad Kanji link if you want to know what it means.  Extra points if you know where that saying originates from.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some really amusing links at \/usr\/bin\/girl today. Glossary of Military Hand Signals Bad Kanji The military hand signals is amusing. The second link is hilarious. For years I think ENglish speakers have made a point of pointing out really bad uses of English by Japanese. If you look at some of the Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}