{"id":312,"date":"2004-01-12T01:16:44","date_gmt":"2004-01-12T08:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2004-01-12T01:16:44","modified_gmt":"2004-01-12T08:16:44","slug":"in-fatta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2004\/01\/in-fatta\/","title":{"rendered":"In fatta"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s linguistic deja vu all over again: After embarrassing episodes with mores and awry<\/a> it now turns out I’ve been making arguments in Swedish all over the place using the Swedish term “in fatta” whenever I want to say “in fact”. But in fact it turns out “in fatta” is pure fiction on my part. I must have used it once, nobody complained, and it soon became a standard argumentative technique.
 
Which, again, leads to the question, what were<\/em> people thinking I was saying? Problem is, there does not seem to be a exact conceptual translation into Swedish for this rethorical shortcut.<\/span> OK, nu vet jag \u00e4ntligen att “in fatta” inte betyder “in fact”. In fatta, det betyder ingenting p\u00e5 svenska, \u00e4ven om jag anv\u00e4nde det varje dag tills Fredagskv\u00e4ll, d\u00e5 en v\u00e4n fr\u00e5gade vad egentligen jag betydde.<\/p>\n

Men jag tycker om att anv\u00e4nda “in fact” p\u00e5 engelska, d\u00e4rf\u00f6r att jag vanligen argumenterar med en struktur som beh\u00f6ver ge specifika exemplar av en motsats. Nu har jag ingen \u00f6vers\u00e4ttning av detta mentala begrepp p\u00e5 svenska. “Faktum \u00e4r?” “Egentligen?” Det verkar inte vara samma sak. Kan ni inte b\u00f6rja anv\u00e4nda “in fatta”, f\u00f6r min skull?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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