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Post by WDB on Apr 19, 2024 10:02:07 GMT
I had to look that up too!
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Post by bpg on Apr 19, 2024 10:13:38 GMT
One for your next German class, did you know the adjustable spanner, Verstellschlüssel, is also called an Engländer ?
Mainly used when stripping down machinery that used imperial fittings rather than metric. It's cheaper than having a separate box of sockets for their socket set.
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Post by WDB on Apr 19, 2024 10:22:20 GMT
Curiously, that one hasn’t come up. But our Lehrerin is 🇨🇭 so perhaps they say it differently there. (Or wouldn’t countenance anything as crude as an adjustable spanner.) I do know that Marmelade can also be Konfitüre.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2024 10:29:17 GMT
I've got a thing about large 4-seater coupés. See also Lancia Gamma Coupé.
I remember learning about Engländer in my German A Level lessons, have surprised the odd German (and some normal ones) with that.
Swiss German, eh? Ought to be declared a new language entirely if it hasn't been already. It's incomprehensible.
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Post by bpg on Apr 19, 2024 10:45:05 GMT
Curiously, that one hasn’t come up. But our Lehrerin is 🇨🇭 so perhaps they say it differently there. (Or wouldn’t countenance anything as crude as an adjustable spanner.) I do know that Marmelade can also be Konfitüre. Marmelade is the equivalent of jam where I live. What we in the UK call Marmelade is Orange Marmelade. Other fruit jams can be called Konfitüre or Konfitüre Extra but not Orange, that only gets label Orangen Marmelade. Edit: there's probably a rule dating back to C15 starting how much fruit or sugar makes one Marmelade and the other Konfitüre. They like their rules, who knew ? 😳 The Swiss dialect is a hard one when you get used to a local dialect that is very close to Dutch in the use of hard vowels and throat clearing. Almost sounds as though the Swiss dialect is trying very hard not to break out in song. |
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Post by WDB on Apr 19, 2024 11:01:14 GMT
The Konfitüre Extra thing probably explains the ‘Extra Jam’ we got on UK labels in the 1990s — an over-literal attempt to harmonise terms across markets. I think it was quietly dropped when it became obvious that nobody understood it. Not sure if the ‘Conserve’ we see now on high-fruit jams is the direct replacement.
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Post by EspadaIII on Apr 19, 2024 12:10:11 GMT
Lancia Gamma Coupe - yes that one also, although less dramatic than the 130 and it had a unique 2.5 boxer engine which was not a patch on the Ferrari based engine in the 130. There was one that lived near us for several years but it went to the great scrapyard in the sky a while back.
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