{"id":192,"date":"2012-07-03T02:02:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T02:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2012-07-04T02:03:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T02:03:42","slug":"google-translate-for-danish-english-has-an-easter-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Google Translate for Danish <-> English has an Easter Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An &#8220;Easter Egg&#8221; in the digital world is a quirky, hidden\u00a0behavior hidden inside an application or a website, which\u00a0can be brought\u00a0to life when some secret \u00a0key sequence or mouse movement is entered. The clever programmers at Google have created so many of them that a whole <a title=\"Google Easter Eggs\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Google's_hoaxes_and_easter_eggs\" target=\"_blank\">WikiPedia page <\/a>is dedicated to them. I found one in\u00a0Google Translate. Chosing the English-Danish translation one gets:\u00a0 swipe a credit card ==&gt; knalde et kreditkort. And even the reverse works too\u00a0(knalde et kreditkort ==&gt; Swipe a credit card). The problem is that &#8220;knalde&#8221; has absolutely nothing to do with swiping in Danish. It means something like &#8220;smash&#8221; and is more generally used as the common description of what people do when they make children&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Google-Translate-demotivational-poster-21793.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-195\" title=\"Google Translate demotivational-poster-21793\" src=\"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Google-Translate-demotivational-poster-21793.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Google-Translate-demotivational-poster-21793.jpg 492w, http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Google-Translate-demotivational-poster-21793-300x276.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Google-Translate-demotivational-poster-21793-325x300.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Andre.Perman\" target=\"_blank\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                        <\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=192\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An &#8220;Easter Egg&#8221; in the digital world is a quirky, hidden\u00a0behavior hidden inside an application or a website, which\u00a0can be brought\u00a0to life when some secret \u00a0key sequence or mouse movement is entered. The clever programmers at Google have created so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=192\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}