{"id":26846,"date":"2009-07-22T18:51:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T18:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/07\/22\/my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr\/"},"modified":"2009-07-22T18:51:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T18:51:23","slug":"my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/22\/my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr\/","title":{"rendered":"My sister in law just got Abwrackpraemie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t worry, it is not as bad as it sounds, but it is somewhat contagious.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<em>Abwrackpraemie<\/em> is German for &#8220;car scrappage bonus&#8221; which is what you get if you turn in your older lower mpg car for a new higher mpg car, I assume.<\/p>\n<p>The word was added to the German Language earlier today as five thousand words in total were loaded into Das Dictionary.  Other words include Konjunkturpaket (stimulus package) and &#8220;After-Show-Party&#8221; (that one is from English).  Oh, and we have a new verb in German as well:  Twittern.  Not sure what it means, though.<\/p>\n<p>There is a story on this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8163541.stm\">here at the BBC<\/a> or you can visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duden.de\/\">the dictionary&#8217;s site here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t worry, it is not as bad as it sounds, but it is somewhat contagious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[181,15],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Z0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}