{"id":585,"date":"2005-08-13T04:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameslick.com\/blog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2005-08-13T04:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-12T20:29:00","slug":"chinese-on-the-comics-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Chinese on the comics page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first panel of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedmedia.com\/comics\/luann\/archive\/luann-20050812.html\">today&#8217;s Luann<\/a> comic strip is in Chinese.  Apparently Luann&#8217;s old flame Aaron Hill is shacking up with a Chinese girl in Hawaii and is learning to speak Chinese.  Since the strip doesn&#8217;t provide subtitles, as a public service here&#8217;s what they said:<\/p>\n<p>Aaron: \u00e5\u00b0\u008d\u00e4\u00b8\u008d\u00e8\u00b5\u00b7 (pronounced dui bu qi): Sorry.<br \/>\nGirl: \u00e6\u00b2\u2019\u00e9\u2014\u0153\u00e4\u00bf\u201a (pronounced mei guan xi): It doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>OK, maybe not too exciting, but it&#8217;s kinda neat seeing actual Chinese instead of the random scribbles that often are used instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first panel of today&#8217;s Luann comic strip is in Chinese. Apparently Luann&#8217;s old flame Aaron Hill is shacking up with a Chinese girl in Hawaii and is learning to speak Chinese. Since the strip doesn&#8217;t provide subtitles, as a public service here&#8217;s what they said: Aaron: \u00e5\u00b0\u008d\u00e4\u00b8\u008d\u00e8\u00b5\u00b7 (pronounced dui bu qi): Sorry. Girl: \u00e6\u00b2\u2019\u00e9\u2014\u0153\u00e4\u00bf\u201a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=585\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chinese on the comics page&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}