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<blockquote data-quote="Per SÃ¸vik" data-source="post: 99711" data-attributes="member: 1285">Re: S16 clicks and noisebursts and other problems.That is the perfect translation, or &quot;vittigper&quot;, as that describes someone making smartass jokes while &quot;viktigper&quot; is more descriptive of someone making smartass comments in a non-jokingly way. &quot;Luring&quot; is one of those words which meaning varies slightly from dialect to dialect and can mean anything from just describing someone as smart, to street-smart and contriving to downright sneaky. Luring in Danish is actually more often a trickster or even a con artist, so &quot;sneaky&quot; would probably be a safe translation from Danish as well. This is the hard thing with language, even when one knows the context and the geographical area, unless you narrow it down to cultural and social background, a word might be very hard to translate, and thus a sentence might mean something completely different to the listener than what the speaker tried to communicate. When someone with an Arab background say &quot;too much&quot; they really mean &quot;a lot&quot; or even &quot;enough&quot; and when an oriental answers &quot;yes&quot; it only means he heard the question. When an astrophysicist say that &quot;the universe is 80% black matter&quot; he means &quot;our universal mass calculations might be off by a factor of five&quot; :twisted:</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Per SÃ¸vik, post: 99711, member: 1285"] Re: S16 clicks and noisebursts and other problems. That is the [U]per[/U]fect translation, or "vittigper", as that describes someone making smartass jokes while "viktigper" is more descriptive of someone making smartass comments in a non-jokingly way. "Luring" is one of those words which meaning varies slightly from dialect to dialect and can mean anything from just describing someone as smart, to street-smart and contriving to downright sneaky. Luring in Danish is actually more often a trickster or even a con artist, so "sneaky" would probably be a safe translation from Danish as well. This is the hard thing with language, even when one knows the context and the geographical area, unless you narrow it down to cultural and social background, a word might be very hard to translate, and thus a sentence might mean something completely different to the listener than what the speaker tried to communicate. When someone with an Arab background say "too much" they really mean "a lot" or even "enough" and when an oriental answers "yes" it only means he heard the question. When an astrophysicist say that "the universe is 80% black matter" he means "our universal mass calculations might be off by a factor of five" :twisted: [/QUOTE]

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