{"id":30373,"date":"2006-07-25T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/07\/25\/if-you-know-german-the-world-is-well-slightly-more-confusing\/"},"modified":"2006-07-25T10:00:43","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T10:00:43","slug":"if-you-know-german-the-world-is-well-slightly-more-confusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060725-43\/?p=30373","title":{"rendered":"If you know German, the world is, well, slightly more confusing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it may be true that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/01\/13\/58200.aspx\"> if you know Swedish, the world is funnier<\/a>, I have to admit that my knowledge of German only served to create momentary confusion.\n When I saw the headline that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/business\/news\/article1185332.ece\"> the head of BetonSports was arrested<\/a>, I thought to myself, &#8220;Who the heck would have a web site devoted to sports in concrete?&#8221; That&#8217;s because the German word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dict.cc\/?s=deutsch-englisch:Beton\"> <i>Beton<\/i><\/a> means &#8220;concrete&#8221; (the construction material) in English, and the German word <i>Sport<\/i> means the same as in English.<\/p>\n<p> It took me a few moments to realize that the company&#8217;s name is &#8220;Bet on Sports&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it may be true that if you know Swedish, the world is funnier, I have to admit that my knowledge of German only served to create momentary confusion. When I saw the headline that the head of BetonSports was arrested, I thought to myself, &#8220;Who the heck would have a web site devoted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-30373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>While it may be true that if you know Swedish, the world is funnier, I have to admit that my knowledge of German only served to create momentary confusion. When I saw the headline that the head of BetonSports was arrested, I thought to myself, &#8220;Who the heck would have a web site devoted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}