{"id":71,"date":"2007-07-28T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2007-07-28T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T11:28:00","slug":"word-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/word-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

nostalgización<\/i><\/b> – in English, nostalgization (well, it’s not really a word in either language)<\/p>\n

I read that in the book I just finished, Cien años de soledad<\/i> (One hundred years of solitude). It always amuses me to find quirky things like this when I’m reading Spanish lit – things that cross language boundaries, that authors in multiple languages do. In this case, the nouning of a verbed noun. I’ve also come across several idioms that are the same in Spanish as in English – like “we’re in the same boat.” Makes me wonder when the idiom developed – first in one language, then literally translated to the other? Both developed simultaneously? Developed before the languages branched off?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

nostalgización – in English, nostalgization (well, it’s not really a word in either language) I read that in the book I just finished, Cien años de soledad (One hundred years of solitude). It always amuses me to find quirky things … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}