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Re: conplaneteering

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 16, 2005, 0:52
Quoting Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>:

> I find all the Swedish products I deal with at IKEA really weird when > they say things like 'Gewicht* 3,5 kg/Weight 123,5 oz' though. It's > even weirder when the only language on the packaging is English and > they still use commas for decimal points. It seems to me that > translating punctuation (and time into 12-hour) is just as much a part > of translation as translating 'Gewicht' into 'Weight'. > > * I can only remember the German word for 'weight', but chances are the > German word will be on it somewheres.
The Swedish is simply _vikt_. Andreas