{"id":1236,"date":"2009-02-08T21:11:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T21:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2009-02-08T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T21:30:05","slug":"speaking-in-tongues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"Speaking in tongues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sorry about the length of the first sentence, but breaking it up loses the non-stop narrative of the scene<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the closing seconds of The West Wing Season Three, in the third episode on the boxed set (but the second episode of the series &#8211; there&#8217;s a 9\/11 &#8216;special&#8217; on the DVD-set which wasn&#8217;t broadcast in the original sequence), President Bartlett, having delivered a big &#8216;playtime is over&#8217; speech to his staff, walks (flanked by Leo) out of the school classroom on to the balcony to the cheers and accolades of the Manchester (New England) crowd.<\/p>\n<p>At that point Soph looked up at me and said with an immaculate accent: <em>Zony ozsturdi<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m constantly learning new things about her, but since when did Soph learn to say &#8216;I can&#8217;t find my toothbrush&#8217; in Serbian?*<\/p>\n<p>I queried her and she translated from the Herefordshire dialect she&#8217;d actually spoken: &#8216;He&#8217;s only horse-turd high&#8217; [meaning: The actor playing President Bartlett is rather short, isn&#8217;t he?].<\/p>\n<p>Language, it&#8217;s an amazing thing.<\/p>\n<p>* I know it&#8217;s not actually &#8216;I can&#8217;t find my toothbrush in Serbian&#8217;, but you have to admit it&#8217;s pretty damn close!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry about the length of the first sentence, but breaking it up loses the non-stop narrative of the scene In the closing seconds of The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}