{"id":93,"date":"2012-05-22T04:41:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T04:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2012-06-04T16:24:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T16:24:32","slug":"arbeit-macht-rewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Arbeit macht rewards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&#8220;How rewards work&#8221;\u00a0was translated to &#8220;S\u00e5dan bel\u00f8nnes arbejde&#8221; , meaning: &#8220;This is how work is rewarded&#8221;.\u00a0 Which brings up some eerie associations with the signs that used to adorn the entrances to Nazi concentration camps&#8230; \ud83d\ude41<br \/>\nThis again is an instance of a translation ambiguity starting with English having exactly the same word for the verb and the noun, here:\u00a0&#8220;Reward&#8221;. Interestingly enough, in this case we DO have a similar pairing in Danish with the verb &#8220;bel\u00f8nne&#8221; and the noun &#8220;bel\u00f8nning&#8221;, except the latter is a bit old-fashioned and not used in context with modern-day Credit Card rewards programs and such.\u00a0In modern\u00a0Danish we use the verb &#8220;bel\u00f8nner&#8221; with the nouns\u00a0&#8220;bonusprogram&#8221; or &#8220;pr\u00e6mieprogram&#8221;. So, a good translation would be: &#8220;S\u00e5dan virker bonusprogrammet&#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=\"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=93\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How rewards work&#8221;\u00a0was translated to &#8220;S\u00e5dan bel\u00f8nnes arbejde&#8221; , meaning: &#8220;This is how work is rewarded&#8221;.\u00a0 Which brings up some eerie associations with the signs that used to adorn the entrances to Nazi concentration camps&#8230; \ud83d\ude41 This again is an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/?p=93\">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":[3,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambigous-english","category-funny","category-same-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rottendanish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}