{"id":38,"date":"2006-02-22T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog2\/?p=38"},"modified":"2006-02-22T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T23:23:00","slug":"renaming-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/renaming-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Renaming this blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking over my last several entries I couldn’t help but notice a pattern of vivid<\/a>, glowing<\/a>, colorful<\/a> things<\/a>. I guess I just like the bright and shiny. And really, who doesn’t? But it reminded me of a phrase my friend David Oppenheimer told me years ago upon returning from a trip to Nepal. He had learned that the Nepali language has this interesting property, where a word can be pluralized or emphasized by repeating it<\/a>, but changing the first letter. Like how in English, you can say “taxes, schmaxes!” Except that there’s a certain pattern to which letters change into which other letters. It was totally fascinating to a linguistics-minded kid like me. I’m probably misremembering the details, but it was cool.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the example he used was the word rang<\/a><\/i>, which means “color”. Double the word and change the first letter, and you get rangi-changi<\/a><\/i>, which means “splendor, display”. The word cij<\/a><\/i>, “thing”, becomes cij-bij<\/a><\/i>, “things”. Put it all together, and you can make rangi-changi-cij-bij<\/i>, which loosely translates to “a whole mess of colorful stuff”.<\/p>\n

So that’s the new name of my blog. A whole mess of colorful stuff, transliterated crudely from Nepali to English so you can enjoy how it rolls off the tongue: Rungy Chungy Cheese Bees! Say it loud! Okay, maybe not that loud, people are staring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking over my last several entries I couldn’t help but notice a pattern of vivid, glowing, colorful things. I guess I just like the bright and shiny. And really, who doesn’t? But it reminded me of a phrase my friend David Oppenheimer told me years ago upon returning from a trip to Nepal. He had … Continue reading Renaming this blog<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}