{"id":4123,"date":"2013-06-10T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2013\/06\/10\/unexpected-complexity-of-swedish-pronouns-and-escaping-the-resulting-embarrassment\/"},"modified":"2013-06-10T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T07:00:01","slug":"unexpected-complexity-of-swedish-pronouns-and-escaping-the-resulting-embarrassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20130610-01\/?p=4123","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected complexity of Swedish pronouns, and escaping the resulting embarrassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I dreamed that Swedish had separate third-person-plural pronouns based on gender. They were formed from <i>han<\/i> and <i>hon<\/i> by adding a common suffix, but the pattern broke down for <i>det<\/i>, and I got stuck trying to finish a sentence without knowing the correct word. <\/p>\n<p> I was able to escape from this embarrassing situation by using a technique available only in dreams: I woke up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dreamed that Swedish had separate third-person-plural pronouns based on gender. They were formed from han and hon by adding a common suffix, but the pattern broke down for det, and I got stuck trying to finish a sentence without knowing the correct word. I was able to escape from this embarrassing situation by using [&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":[129,103],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-dream","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I dreamed that Swedish had separate third-person-plural pronouns based on gender. They were formed from han and hon by adding a common suffix, but the pattern broke down for det, and I got stuck trying to finish a sentence without knowing the correct word. I was able to escape from this embarrassing situation by using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123","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=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/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=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}