User talk:Abildgaard

Hi Abildgaard, I'm hoping to ask a native speaker of Danish about how to translate the phrase "frit flet" into English. "Frit Flet" is the title of a Naja Marie Aidt book, and Politikken newspaper awards a "Frit Flet Pris." I've seen the translation "Free Float," and I'm wondering if that's the best. In English, we might say "free floating" to describe something that is untethered or disconnected. It can carry a connotation of being a bit strange or out of the ordinary. We speak of free floating anxiety or free floating currencies. Is "frit flet" used that way, and is it a common Danish saying? I'm especially wondering why the Politikken prize is called "Frit Flet." Thanks for any help, LeastRivers

Hi LeastRivers, "Free Float" seems off. The text on https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frit_flet talks about the book being written mutually by the three authors Naja Marie Aidt, Line Knutzon and Mette Moestrup. I would translate the title into something like "Free Merge" or actually even "Freely Merge". The wording is quite rare since 1) it's in such short form and 2) I believe it's more common in danish to use a compound word like "sammenflettet" instead (meaning "entwined" or "merged together"). Abildgaard (talk) 22:49, 11 January 2018 (UTC)