Re: Intergermansk - Pizza packaging text :D

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 01:58:02 +1100, Tristan McLeay
<conlang@...> wrote:

>On 30 Jan 2005, at 10.16 am, Pascal A. Kramm wrote:
>
>> I got the idea while eating pizza (Dr. Oetker Ristorante Speciale):
>> How about if I submit my lang to an acid test and see how well it can
>> translate a real-world example text? :D
>>
>> So here is the translation of the text on the pizza packaging, see for
>> yourself how much of it you can understand:
>
>This one was much harder to understand, it looks very German (even
>though some of it clearly isn't), though I suppose a German-speaker
>would disagree :) (Fjern plast, for instance---plast might be plastic,
>but fjern I have no idea about.)
Well, this (and also the North Wind text) happens to have a good amount of
words where the English words are quite dissimilar to the words common to
the other Germanic langs...

>> Richlig topte med käs, salami, champinjons och shink on krisp, dinn
>> boden.
>
>Your English translation has 'champignons'. I thought that was the
>French word for mushrooms; do these differ from mushrooms somehow?
"Mushroom" is the general term, just like e.g. "tree" is general.
"Champignon" is a specific type of mushroom, just like an "oak" is a
specific type of tree.

>> Tillbereiding
>> -------------
>> 1. Forwarm oven
>>    Elektro-oven: 220-230°C
>>    Warmluft: 200°C
>>    Gas: 4-5
>
>I'm afraid I don't get this one. What's the 4-5? Short for 400--500
>degrees F? Gas ovens down under are always marked in the temperature
>appropriate for when it was made (i.e. anything after the
>mid-to-late-70s or whenever we metricated are in celsius, but if you
>have a really ancient thing like my sister's it's in fahrenheit).
Beats me - I never had a gas oven... I just translated what was in the
original text (and in English as well) simply given as "Gas: 4-5".
Probably it refers to levels or something, so it's meaning "set your gas
oven to level 4 or 5". Obviously, the higher the level, the hotter it gets.
Seems like gas oven level 5 equates about to 230°C.

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