{"id":9,"date":"2012-04-06T20:18:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T03:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rottendanish.pereffect.com\/wp\/?p=9"},"modified":"2012-04-06T20:18:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T03:18:42","slug":"if-something-has-value-it-is-expensive-if-it-is-a-great-value-it-is-cheap-hmmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"If something HAS value it is expensive, if it IS a great value, it is cheap. Hmmm&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English sentence &#8220;<strong>Our product\u00a0is a great value<\/strong>&#8221; (meaning: is a\u00a0bargain), gets translated to \u201cVores produkt har stor v\u00e6rdi\u201d (<strong>Our product is worth a lot, <\/strong>i.e. more or less: is expensive),\u00a0which makes me notice how we some times in English\u00a0use a word totally opposite of its original meaning.<br \/>\nThe current slang use of &#8220;sick&#8221; as meaning\u00a0 something GOOD comes to mind, or &#8220;downhill from here&#8221;, which is good if you&#8217;re on a bicycle, but bad if you&#8217;re turning 50 years old.<br \/>\nThere are more examples of such words, which can mean the exactly opposite depending on context, at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auto-antonym\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auto-antonym<\/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=\"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=9\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English sentence &#8220;Our product\u00a0is a great value&#8221; (meaning: is a\u00a0bargain), gets translated to \u201cVores produkt har stor v\u00e6rdi\u201d (Our product is worth a lot, i.e. more or less: is expensive),\u00a0which makes me notice how we some times in English\u00a0use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=9\">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":[4,6],"tags":[8,10],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-words-used-opposite-of-their-meaning","tag-downhill","tag-value"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}