{"id":789,"date":"2012-11-11T23:23:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T23:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/?p=789"},"modified":"2012-11-12T01:21:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T01:21:28","slug":"how-to-know-when-the-bakers-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2012\/11\/11\/how-to-know-when-the-bakers-born\/","title":{"rendered":"How to know when the baker\u2019s born\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A Swede enters a Danish\u00a0taxa<\/strong>\u00a0(cab) and asks the driver to take him to a\u00a0rolig\u00a0<\/strong>place. To the Swede\u2019s bewilderment, the driver drops him off at a graveyard!<\/p>\n

The fun part of this joke is that the word\u00a0rolig<\/strong>\u00a0means \u201damusing\u201d in Swedish, but \u201drelaxed\u201d or \u201dquiet\u201d in Danish\u2026<\/p>\n

A lot of Danish\u00a0humor<\/strong>\u00a0[HOO-more] is based on\u00a0ordspil<\/strong>\u00a0(puns, literally \u201dword plays\u201d) like this. When the\u00a0vittighed\/er<\/strong>\u00a0(joke\/s) are translated, the puns and the fun usually disappear. It often takes a lot of insider\u2019s knowledge to understand what the Danes are laughing at. I guess that\u2019s another reason why many foreigners have a hard time breaking the ice and really becoming integrated in the warmth of the chitchat.<\/p>\n

Making puns in Danish is extremely easy, as there are many different words that almost sound the same (homonyms). For example the word\u00a0k\u00f8er<\/strong>\u00a0(cows, from\u00a0ko<\/strong>, cow) sounds exactly the same as\u00a0k\u00f8er<\/strong>\u00a0(queues, from\u00a0k\u00f8<\/strong>, queue). I remember a poster with a cow saying\u00a0Til dig, der er tr\u00e6t af k\u00f8er\u2026<\/strong>\u00a0(For you who are tired of queues). Of course, it was an ad for some transportation company\u2026 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Recently, people have even started mixing Danish and English in their puns. This is often confusing to foreigners, who only catch the English part! The Danish juice company Naked Fruit print the text\u00a0Bar\u2019 \u00e6blemost<\/strong>\u00a0on their cartons. It means either \u2019just apple juice\u2019 or \u2019naked apple juice\u2019. Thus the company name makes sense to a Dane in another way than it would to a foreigner, even if it\u2019s in English!<\/p>\n

Admitted, the puns that are everywhere in Danish jokes and brand names can be a little silly. A lot of Danes are fed up with them.<\/p>\n

My favorite example is the name of the current date, 11-11. In Danish that is\u00a0(den) ellevte i ellevte<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201dthe 11th in the 11th\u201d), which happens to sound just like\u00a0\u00e6lte i \u00e6lte<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201dknead in knead\u201d). For that reason, many people have started to call the day\u00a0bagerens f\u00f8dselsdag<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 the baker\u2019s birthday. Last year,\u00a0\u201dden \u00e6lte i \u00e6lte i \u00e6lte\u201d<\/strong>, many bakeries celebrated the day with special offers, and a young couple of bakers got married. All because of a pun. I cannot imagine that happening in any other country than Denmark\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

A Swede enters a Danish\u00a0taxa\u00a0(cab) and asks the driver to take him to a\u00a0rolig\u00a0place. To the Swede\u2019s bewilderment, the driver drops him off at a graveyard! The fun part of this joke is that the word\u00a0rolig\u00a0means \u201damusing\u201d in Swedish, but \u201drelaxed\u201d or \u201dquiet\u201d in Danish\u2026 A lot of Danish\u00a0humor\u00a0[HOO-more] is based on\u00a0ordspil\u00a0(puns, literally \u201dword plays\u201d)…<\/p>\n

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