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Originally Posted by Skyrock
It would also include "Schlag" and/or "Zug". Has no one read Mark Twains truths on the German language? But then, according to him I still have over two lifetimes left to find out the one word for "armor"  |
Wasn't that the article where he stated that "Wagner's Music is better than it sounds?"
I have indeed read the German language bit! It still makes me laugh just thinking about it! I have a complete set of Twain...
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Still, it could be worse. In French, the same word would probably include "flexible but sturdy chains with a lamellar surface, which are possibly attached or preferably bolted to both sides of the vehicle, or are possibly not bolted or even attached, depending on the exact kind, composition and status of the vehicle in question" just to describe the possible tracked condition.
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That would be the official phrase, coined to avoid using the English word, while the French people would use "Armour" as if it were the perectly good ancient French word it actually is. :P
In the English language, we sould do what we actually did, steal a word from another language, make it our own by making verbs and adjective forms of it, simplify the spelling or just plain pronounce it like it was English, and pretend it always was English. .
-clash