On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 07:46:58AM -0400, Mark Wendt wrote: > On 11/01/2010 07:40 AM, Andy Pugh wrote: > > Hello Steve, hello Mark, > >> how about a dictionary for non-US-slang people? > >> > > My German engineering friend suggests "Dingsdabumsda" as the > > translation for all three words. > > > > (She speaks pretty much perfect English. to the extent that people are > > generally surprised to learn she is German) > > I like that one! I'll have to try and remember it!
If that's a bit long, the bunch of German telecommunications engineers I worked with for a few months in Munich, just used "Dingsboms". (Pronounced dingce-bomce, rather than dings-bombs, i.e. sharp Ss.) Sometimes, "Dingsda" was used instead. That's probably the easiest form. With my limited German, it was a very useful word, I found. (Especially in the design labs where I worked.) Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
