{"id":57,"date":"2009-06-12T21:26:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T01:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=57"},"modified":"2009-06-12T21:26:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T01:26:09","slug":"krokodili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/krokodili\/","title":{"rendered":"Krokodili"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month I decided to hunt down some more idiomatic expressions in Esperanto. The best one I could find for this entry (i.e., one that is not an expletive, and thus fit for polite company!) is the verb &#8220;<strong>krokodili<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Native English speakers might know of the expression &#8220;crocodile tears,&#8221; which refers to a display of false emotion. It has a negative connotation, and to some extent &#8220;krokodili&#8221; grasps this negativity. &#8220;Krokodili&#8221; means to speak one&#8217;s native language among a group of Esperantists &#8211; in essence, to be a bit hypocritical about calling oneself an Esperantist!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mi ne povas krokodili inter amikoj!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month I decided to hunt down some more idiomatic expressions in Esperanto. The best one I could find for this entry (i.e., one that is not an expletive, and thus fit for polite company!) is the verb &#8220;krokodili.&#8221; Native English speakers might know of the expression &#8220;crocodile tears,&#8221; which refers to a display of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/krokodili\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[7736],"tags":[3,13],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-esperanto-language","tag-culture","tag-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}