THANK YOU!

Someone changes the damn topic tag...

...mutter, mutter.

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James.
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Hord
> Sent: 2005 Feb 04, Fri 14:50
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: [OT] Mistranslations, from 18F Oscillator discussion
> 
> > > My favourite mistake was asking a German farmer for a 
> place to set 
> > > up my
> > > tent: "Haben Sie ein platz fur mich zum kampfen?" => "Do 
> you have a 
> > > place for me to fight?" (Dutch "Kamperen" != German "Kampfen").
> > 
> > Good one!
> 
> I seem to remember a possibly apocryphal story involving a 
> major ballpoint pen manufacturer which touted its new pen 
> design as leak-proof by declaring in Spanish speaking nations 
> that it won't leak in your pocket and "embrazar" you, 
> "embrazar" being taken as the Spanish word for embarass.
> 
> Or so they thought.  The story goes on to say that "embrazar" 
> in fact means "impregnate", which naturally caused a good 
> deal of confusion as to what exactly was in the pens in the 
> first place!
> 
> My meager Spanish is incapable of establishing the veracity 
> of this claim; Snopes has no easily found article on the 
> issue and Babelfish translates "embrazar" as "to embrazar", 
> "impregnate" as "impregne", and "embarass" as "embarass".  
> Perhaps Babelfish isn't so good with single words?  I'm sure 
> someone will step forward and deny/verify.
> 
> Mike H.
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