{"id":46,"date":"2012-04-16T00:06:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T00:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rottendanish.pereffect.com\/wp\/?p=46"},"modified":"2012-04-16T00:06:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T00:06:20","slug":"charging-a-battery-adds-to-it-but-charging-an-account-takes-from-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Charging a battery adds to it, but charging an account takes from it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another English word that can mean the exactly opposite depending on the context:<br \/>\n&#8220;We will charge your account&#8221; means\u00a0&#8220;we will <strong>take<\/strong> money <strong>from<\/strong> your account&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;We will charge your battery&#8221;, on the other hand, means that we will <strong>add<\/strong> some juice <strong>to<\/strong> your battery.<br \/>\nIn Danish there are two different words for this: &#8220;opkr\u00e6ve&#8221; is what we do to your money and &#8220;oplade&#8221; is what we do to your battery. If you enter &#8220;charge the account&#8221; into Google Translate you will get the <strong>incorrect<\/strong> word.<\/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=\"https:\/\/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=\"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=46\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another English word that can mean the exactly opposite depending on the context: &#8220;We will charge your account&#8221; means\u00a0&#8220;we will take money from your account&#8221;. &#8220;We will charge your battery&#8221;, on the other hand, means that we will add &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=46\">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":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambigous-english","category-words-used-opposite-of-their-meaning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}