{"id":57,"date":"2012-04-19T05:34:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T05:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2012-04-19T05:34:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T05:34:55","slug":"and-action-not-auction-to-list-a-list-is-not-possible-in-danish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"And&#8230;Action! (not &#8220;Auction!&#8221;). To list a list is not possible in Danish."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the company is PayPal, an eBay company, getting &#8220;<strong>an action&#8221;<\/strong> past the translators can be challenging, as all around us are &#8220;<strong>auctions&#8221;<\/strong> . \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n&#8220;Please select an action&#8221; has a few times become &#8220;Please select an auction&#8221; in translation.<br \/>\nAnd speaking of auctions and online selling, the English word &#8220;a listing&#8221; is very hard to translate. To the English-speaker it clearly stands for an item listed (or, in other words:\u00a0put up) for sale. In Danish we have a word for the noun &#8220;a list&#8221; (en liste), but no single word verb for &#8220;inserting an item into a list&#8221;. We read lists and we publish lists, but when we &#8220;list&#8221; in Danish, i.e use\u00a0the verb &#8220;at liste&#8221;, we sneak up on something or someone on our tippie-toes and are typically up to no good&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/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=57\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the company is PayPal, an eBay company, getting &#8220;an action&#8221; past the translators can be challenging, as all around us are &#8220;auctions&#8221; . \ud83d\ude42 &#8220;Please select an action&#8221; has a few times become &#8220;Please select an auction&#8221; in translation. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=57\">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-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}