Jeez Clark I dunno! What made you think I might be? Who be that?
AA
Clark Johnsen wrote:
> Aaron:
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> You any relation to der Schneider Kakadu?
>
> clark
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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>> When I was doing my research for the Dawn of Digital article, I found some
>> real whoppers in Google translations of Japanese web pages.
>>
>> -- Tom Fine
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Levinson" <
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>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:01 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Dol Dauber
>>
>>
>> That's really depressing dl, the real joy of babbleghoti (thanks Mr. Shaw)
>>
>>> was the ensuing hilarity that resulted from using it. You really know how to
>>> take all the fun out of life...
>>>
>>> AA
>>>
>>> David Lennick wrote:
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>>>
>>>> Apologies for not killing this topic off, but that translation worked
>>>> perfectly in Babelfish..first one I've ever seen come out readable!
>>>>
>>>> "Not really, but in the past years I cut many tapes with razor-blades."
>>>>
>>>> Schnitt!
>>>>
>>>> dl
>>>>
>>>> Erik Dix wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> The sentence should be more something like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> Nicht wirklich, aber in den vergangenen Jahren habe ich viele Tonbänder
>>>>> mit Rasierklingen geschnitten.
>>>>>
>>>>> And there is no "s" on Schneider in the plural.
>>>>>
>>>>> :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Erik
>>>>>
>>>>> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Z Snyder" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nicht wirklich, aber im vorigen Jahren hab' ich viele Tonbände mit
>>>>>>> Rasierklingen geschneidet.
>>>>>>> ...and certainly before Ellis Island, the name was pronounced
>>>>>>> "Schneider",
>>>>>>> but it may have been spelled shin nun yod yod dalet ayin resh, i.e. in
>>>>>>> Yiddish. My father and his father sold men's clothing, so they were,
>>>>>>> to some
>>>>>>> extent, gent Schneiders.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Schneiden," auf Deutsch, literally means "to cut!" Since tailors HAVE
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> to, by
>>>>>> definition, "cut" the material from which they make a garment...thus
>>>>>> making
>>>>>> them "Schneiders"...?!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...stevenc
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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