{"id":52,"date":"2012-04-18T06:59:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T06:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-04-19T21:48:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T21:48:43","slug":"your-net-purchases-may-or-may-not-be-purchased-on-the-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Your net purchases: may or may not be purchased on the net."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As people buy more and more on-line, and as web sites get localized accordingly,\u00a0we&#8217;ll probably see more confusion between &#8220;net purchases&#8221; and &#8220;purchases on the net&#8221;. I caught it when the English sentence &#8220;Cardholders will accumulate Reward Points based on net purchases on the cardholder&#8217;s account&#8221; was translated into Danish as &#8220;Kortindehavere akkumulerer pr\u00e6miepoint baseret p\u00e5 internetk\u00f8b p\u00e5 kortindehaverens konto&#8221;, i.e. that the Reward Points would be accumulated based on the amount of <strong>internet<\/strong> purchases, rather than the correct &#8220;net purchases&#8221;, meaning: &#8220;purchases minus returns&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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=52\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As people buy more and more on-line, and as web sites get localized accordingly,\u00a0we&#8217;ll probably see more confusion between &#8220;net purchases&#8221; and &#8220;purchases on the net&#8221;. I caught it when the English sentence &#8220;Cardholders will accumulate Reward Points based on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=52\">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":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambigous-english","category-word-sequence-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}