{"id":17525,"date":"2018-07-26T22:57:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T05:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17525"},"modified":"2019-02-06T21:18:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T05:18:19","slug":"mispronouncing-mojibake-and-bakemoji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/07\/26\/mispronouncing-mojibake-and-bakemoji\/","title":{"rendered":"Mispronouncing mojibake and bakemoji"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>(I originally posted this as a comment on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jed.hartman\/posts\/10216727753966148\">Facebook thread of mine<\/a>, but thought it was worth reposting as a Words & Stuff post.)<\/p>\r\n<p>The first time I saw the word <i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mojibake\">mojibake<\/a><\/i>, I didn\u2019t recognize it as Japanese, so I pronounced it (to myself) as rhyming with <i>cake<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n<p>Just now, I did a search for <i>bakemoji<\/i> to see if that meant the same thing, and I was puzzled by the first several search results until I realized that people (presumably Anglophones) were portmanteauing <i>bake<\/i>-as-in-baking + <i>emoji<\/i>, and using <i>bakemoji<\/i> to mean \u201cmaking cupcakes that look like common emoji.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>So I\u2019ve now gotten the pronunciation of <i>bake<\/i> wrong twice, once in each direction. :)<\/p>\r\n<p>I wonder if there\u2019s a word for words in two or more languages that can be written to look the same but have totally different meanings and pronunciations.<\/p>\r\n<p>(Kat noted in response that there are a lot of Japanese words that are in that category.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages","category-pronunciation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17797,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17525\/revisions\/17797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}