{"id":8314,"date":"2023-03-10T10:10:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T02:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=8314"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:10:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T02:10:14","slug":"omg-another-rabbit-pun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2023\/omg-another-rabbit-pun\/","title":{"rendered":"OMG, another rabbit pun!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another pun for the Year of the Rabbit<\/p>\n

Back to Schoo!! [sic]
\n兔然開學
\nOMG<\/p>\n

This is notable mainly for writing the word “tūrán” (“suddenly”) as “兔然” rather than properly as “突然”. <\/p>\n

The key is that “兔” is the character used in writing “tùzi” (rabbit), as in the Year of the Rabbit. (I took the photo last month.) Thus, here we have a Mandarin-Mandarin pun rather than a Mandarin-English one like the one I posted earlier<\/a>. <\/p>\n

So the ad is basically saying, “Oh my god! A new year \/ school semester is suddenly upon us [so we’d better update our computers and get Microsoft 365].”<\/p>\n

I wish they’d bothered to get “school” correct, though. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another pun for the Year of the Rabbit Back to Schoo!! [sic] 兔然開學 OMG This is notable mainly for writing the word “tūrán” (“suddenly”) as “兔然” rather than properly as “突然”. The key is that “兔” is the character used … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,95,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-linguistics","category-mandarin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8317,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions\/8317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}