{"id":59,"date":"2004-01-24T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/01\/24\/writing-to-santa-claus-in-japanese\/"},"modified":"2005-07-12T22:03:36","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T13:03:36","slug":"writing-to-santa-claus-in-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/01\/24\/writing-to-santa-claus-in-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing to Santa Claus in Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- picture_glue_start --><\/p>\n<p\/><a class=\"pic_link\" href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/pix\/post59\/kanji_letter.jpg\" target=\"zoom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo_justified\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/pix\/post59\/thumbnails\/kanji_letter.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Keitai Picture\" \/><\/a><!-- picture_glue_stop -->Only one thing harder than writing in Japanese: writing a <i>letter<\/i> in Japanese!<\/p>\n<p \/>What with the weird structures, required formal expressions and the three thousand rules to follow lest a major cultural <i>faux-pas<\/i> be made&#8230;<\/p>\n<p \/>I mean, for all I know, I probably misspelled half the kanjis resulting in my letter addressing yutaka&#8217;s parents as &#8220;most honorable silaginoids&#8221; or something like that&#8230; So how could I be worrying about the overall level of politeness of my writing.<\/p>\n<p \/>Talking about that, a Google query for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=mispelled&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">mispelled<\/a>&#8221; returns an alarming number of matches&#8230; and don&#8217;t get me started on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;lr=i&amp;e=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;c2coff=1&amp;q=meet+inteligent&amp;btnG=Google+Search\">inteligent<\/a>&#8221; in personal ads&#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing a semi-formal letter in Japanese is freakin hard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-only-in-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}