{"id":1182,"date":"2007-12-02T13:35:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T17:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2007-12-02T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T17:35:40","slug":"a-question-for-swedes-with-a-hungarian-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"A question for Swedes, with a Hungarian bonus."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you crop a photograph in Swedish? The otherwise excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/lexin.nada.kth.se\/cgi-bin\/sve-eng\">lexin online dictionary<\/a> gives Swedish terms for numerous agricultural meanings of &#8220;crop&#8221;; it gives a bird&#8217;s crop and various hairdressing terms. But nothing for the process of cutting a picture to the right size and shape, something which predates computers.<\/p>\n\n<p>Hmm. The Esselte hardback offers, also <em>sk&auml;ra (av)<\/em> which makes me think that <em>sk&auml;ra ut<\/em> is probably the best term. It also has translations for &#8220;crop up&#8221; (<em>dyka upp, yppa sig<\/em>) which Lexin has missed.<\/p>\n\n<p>Also, what is the term for a Hungarian cowboy? I know they roam the Puszta<sup class=\"footnote\"><a href=\"#fn1\">1<\/a><\/sup>  in black brimmed leather hats on horseback, and I have seen three of them outside a snowbound village inn in Slovenia. But there is a special word for them.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn1\"><sup>1<\/sup> Or some similarly spelled part of Hungary that has given its name to a Schnitzel.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you crop a photograph in Swedish? The otherwise excellent lexin online dictionary gives Swedish terms for numerous agricultural meanings of &#8220;crop&#8221;; it gives a bird&#8217;s crop and various hairdressing terms. But nothing for the process of cutting a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}