{"id":545,"date":"2013-08-11T13:02:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T20:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2013-08-11T22:04:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T05:04:23","slug":"i-am-not-making-this-stuff-up-nor-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"I am not making this stuff up! Nor down…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning my Danish-American better half uttered in Danish: “S\u00e5 han blev beskyldt for at lave ting op”. This is a word-by-word, “I am not quite awake”-type direct translation of English that she and I catch ourselves doing and which amuses us tremendously whenever we do catch these “Danglish” slip-ups. -And puzzles our Danish friends whenever the internal language filters don’t go in effect in time… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

What she meant to say (in English) was: “So, he was accused of making things up”, i.e. conjuring things, letting his fantasy run. One can see that English and Danish share similar roots in that the preposition “up” also appears in Danish in the translation of this particular meaning of “making up”, however in Danish it goes in front of the word and in Danish you “up-find” things, not “up-make” things.<\/p>\n

So far so good, but when one realizes how many meanings “Make up” has in English, things get really, really\u00a0dicey. If you want to see confusing machine translations, try these:<\/p>\n

English ==> Danish:<\/strong>
\nMake things up (invent)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0–> Opfinde ting
\nMake up (reconcile, forgive someone) \u00a0 –>\u00a0 Tilgive, forsones
\nMake-up (cosmetics)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 –> Make-up, makeup, sminke
\nMake up for lost time\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 –> Indhente den tabte tid, indhente det fors\u00f8mte
\nMake up one’s mind\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0–> Beslutte sig
\nI’ll make it up to you (I’ll fix the wrongs)\u00a0 –> Jeg vil kompensere dig, jeg vil g\u00f8re det godt igen
\nMake out<\/strong> with you (passionate kissing)\u00a0\u00a0 –> Omfavne og kysse dig
\nMake (verb: to manufacture)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0–> Lave
\nMake (noun: a brand name)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 –> Varem\u00e6rke, fabrikat
\n“Make my Day!” (Dirty Harry)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 –> ?? (Forsk\u00f8n min dag ?)
\nMake my bed!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 –> Red min seng!<\/p>\n

Sounds like it’s time for me to make<\/strong> like a tree and leave<\/strong>… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"94LEj8cP93-10\"<\/a> \"make<\/a> \"Make<\/a> \"yeah-so-if\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n \n \"Fb-Button\"\n <\/a>\n <\/div>
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This morning my Danish-American better half uttered in Danish: “S\u00e5 han blev beskyldt for at lave ting op”. This is a word-by-word, “I am not quite awake”-type direct translation of English that she and I catch ourselves doing and which … Continue reading →<\/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":[3,13,4,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambigous-english","category-different-meaning","category-funny","category-same-words","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}