{"id":2768,"date":"1998-12-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-12-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/12\/07\/wwhat-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T21:48:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T05:48:27","slug":"wwhat-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/12\/07\/wwhat-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"WW: Round and Round We Go (Reader Comments and Addenda)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<p>Pierre provides a Russian loop he heard in college:\r\n<\/p><blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"stanza\">U popa byla sobaka<br \/>\r\nOn yeyo lyubil.<br \/>\r\nOna ukrala kusok sala<br \/>\r\nOn yeyo ubil.<br \/>\r\nUbil, zakapal, na kamushkye napisal,<br \/>\r\n\"U popa byla sobaka...\"<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Pierre's translation:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"stanza\">A priest had a dog<br \/>\r\nHe loved her.<br \/>\r\nShe stole a bit of bacon<br \/>\r\nHe killed her.<br \/>\r\nKilled, buried, on the stone wrote,<br \/>\r\n\"A priest had a dog...\"<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I'm intrigued by the similarity of the transliterations of the words for \"loved\" and \"killed\"... Though the spellings aren't as similar in Russian.<\/p>\r\n<p>Aaron heard this loop at Swarthmore:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Rats. I hate rats. Rats make me crazy. I was crazy once. They put me in a room. There were rats in that room. Rats. I hate rats...<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>He adds, \"Imagine several people in a room, all saying it out of sync.\"<\/p>\r\n<p>Arthur notes that although he doesn't know the origin of the Hoodoo loop, Cary Grant participates in it in the movie <cite>The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer<\/cite>.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last updated: 10 February 1999)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/12\/06\/wwhat\/\">Back to column WW<\/a><\/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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-uuppercase-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","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=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3414,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}