Re: Interesting Babelfish translation
| From: | Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 9, 2005, 16:16 |
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On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:58:21 -0000, Joseph Bridwell <darkmoonman@...>
wrote:
>> writing artists Heinz king, petrol hitting a corner man, Peter
>> Behrens, Rudolf cook, W. Tiemann and Otto Hupp.
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>> "Otto Eckmann" translates into "petrol hitting a corner man"??
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>Well, /das Otto/ is sometimes used for /der Ottomotor/ which is a
>direct injection piston engine - single stroke, two stroke, etc. -
>and /das Eck/ does mean "corner".
Otto Eckmann translates to Otto "Corner-man" actually.
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