{"id":455,"date":"2007-06-11T07:26:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T14:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/11\/a-little-something-about-dutch\/"},"modified":"2007-06-11T07:26:29","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T14:26:29","slug":"a-little-something-about-dutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/a-little-something-about-dutch\/","title":{"rendered":"A little something about Dutch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3ak6AmAn_cY\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Although this might seem trivial, I find this really interesting. This video, promoting a dutch language school by &#8220;teaching&#8221; the audience swear words, actually doesn&#8217;t touch upon what&#8217;s so unique about them in the first place: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Profanity\">references to diseases<\/a>. Because of their long history of self-preservation and survival, the worst thing to say to someone at the time was to wish them cancer or syphilis.<\/p>\n<p>This dilution of their own cultural uniqueness to cater to an international audience is really fascinating. Afraid of being misunderstood, they would rather revert to teaching how to say &#8220;asshole&#8221; then &#8220;may you be struck with gangrene&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Language separated from culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although this might seem trivial, I find this really interesting. This video, promoting a dutch language school by &#8220;teaching&#8221; the audience swear words, actually doesn&#8217;t touch upon what&#8217;s so unique about them in the first place: references to diseases. Because of their long history of self-preservation and survival, the worst thing to say to someone&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/a-little-something-about-dutch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A little something about Dutch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-traveling","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-7l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}