{"id":735,"date":"2002-09-28T08:32:49","date_gmt":"2002-09-28T08:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/?p=735"},"modified":"2002-09-28T08:32:49","modified_gmt":"2002-09-28T08:32:49","slug":"joss-is-going-to-make-me-learn-chinese-dammit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2002\/09\/joss-is-going-to-make-me-learn-chinese-dammit\/","title":{"rendered":"Joss is going to make me learn Chinese, dammit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, there&#8217;s a few people who read things here that speak &#8230;  hell, I don&#8217;t even know if it&#8217;s Chinese.<br \/>\nOkay, I either need a rough translation of these phrases from <i>Firefly<\/i> if they are Chinese, or a guess as to what they are if they aren&#8217;t Chinese.  (It seems like they should be&#8230; certainly the wrong vowels for Japanese.)<br \/>\nYes, I&#8217;m a geek.  Sue me.<br \/>\nSpellings are approximate, so I&#8217;ll try to provide contextual aids.<br \/>\n<i>Wu de ma?<\/i> &#8211; In context, seems to mean &#8220;what&#8217;s that?&#8221; or &#8220;what&#8217;s up?&#8221;<br \/>\n<i>Jen dao mei<br \/>\nTzao gao.<br \/>\nWu de tyen, ah.<\/i> &#8211; All seem to be exclamations of disbelief or horror.<br \/>\n<i>Tyen shiao duh.<\/i> &#8211; Used in a sentence: &#8220;What the <i>tyen shiao duh<\/i> is going on down there?&#8221;<br \/>\n<i>Hwoon dahn.<\/i> &#8211; Derogatory.  &#8220;Moron?&#8221; &#8220;Bastard?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, there&#8217;s a few people who read things here that speak &#8230; hell, I don&#8217;t even know if it&#8217;s Chinese. Okay, I either need a rough translation of these phrases from Firefly if they are Chinese, or a guess as to what they are if they aren&#8217;t Chinese. (It seems like they should be&#8230; certainly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2002\/09\/joss-is-going-to-make-me-learn-chinese-dammit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joss is going to make me learn Chinese, dammit.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-fanboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}