{"id":230,"date":"2006-04-15T22:39:26","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T05:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=230"},"modified":"2006-04-15T22:39:26","modified_gmt":"2006-04-16T05:39:26","slug":"german-peanuts-tidbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/german-peanuts-tidbits\/","title":{"rendered":"German Peanuts tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AAUGH Blog has readers in a surprising range of places, as an email from Chris in Germany serves to remind me. He weighs in on the German <em>Love is a Book with Seven Seals<\/em> title, which we had previously discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=213\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/wordpress\/?p=216\">here<\/a>, suggesting that the &#8220;book with seven seals&#8221; idiom is akin to something in America being compared to &#8220;a closed book&#8221;. He also says<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is a very popular expression in the German language, because the Seven was of great importance in German law and German customs: You needed seven witnesses, there were seven electoral princes, seven alderman and so on. There is also the expression <em>seine sieben Sachen packen<\/em> (to grasp or pack your seven things).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently over in Germany, the baseball strips are translated so that they seem more like they&#8217;re about soccer than baseball. And the mentions of &#8220;root beer&#8221; are translated as <em><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Kr\u00c3\u00a4uterbier<\/span> <\/em>(herbal beer), suggesting that it&#8217;s an actual alcoholic drink being consumed, rather than sweet soda pop.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the information, Chris!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AAUGH Blog has readers in a surprising range of places, as an email from Chris in Germany serves to remind me. He weighs in on the German Love is a Book with Seven Seals title, which we had previously discussed here and here, suggesting that the &#8220;book with seven &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}