{
  "id": 4675798,
  "title": "Why it's so hard to apologize sincerely in a foreign language",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/why-its-so-hard-to-apologize-sincerely-in-a-foreign-language",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-31T16:40:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-hard-sincerely-foreign-language.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "When people apologize, they do more than acknowledge a mistake. They also reveal how they understand responsibility, ethics, social and moral norms, and their relationship with others. These things all differ widely between cultural contexts.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}