{"id":2813,"date":"2003-05-10T06:21:16","date_gmt":"2003-05-10T06:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2003-05-10T06:21:16","modified_gmt":"2003-05-10T06:21:16","slug":"a_cool_word_plu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2813","title":{"rendered":"A Cool Word Plus Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipixel.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/05\/08\/teknonymy.html\">Antipixel<\/a> got a great <a href=\"http:\/\/wordsmith.org\/awad\/index.html\">Word a Day<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>teknonym (TEK-nuh-nim) noun: A name derived from a child&#8217;s name that is used to address a parent. For example, Johnsdad (as opposed to Johnson). <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I first liked the word because it sounds cool.  Plus it starts with tekno, which made me think it might have to do with music at first. ^_^. But, more interesting was reading about how it applied to him.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Teknonymy elegantly solves an interesting problem in Japanese: when the father of a child is &#8220;Aoki-san&#8221; and the mother of a child is also &#8220;Aoki-san,&#8221; how do you refer to each when in the presence of both of them (in a language where first names are rarely used at this level of intimacy)? Spouses can use each other&#8217;s first names (they&#8217;ll also use teknonyms for each other when speaking to others) but for anyone else to do so would most often be presumptuous. Teknonymy &#8212; and A Word a Day &#8212; to the rescue. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipixel.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/05\/08\/teknonymy.html\">Antipixel | blog | Teknonymy<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>How very cool. Learning how various languages is fascinating to me, even if I seem to have a hard time picking them up.  One of these days though I will learn Japanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antipixel got a great Word a Day: teknonym (TEK-nuh-nim) noun: A name derived from a child&#8217;s name that is used to address a parent. For example, Johnsdad (as opposed to Johnson). Now, I first liked the word because it sounds cool. Plus it starts with tekno, which made me think it might have to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}