[Ads-l] U-boat

[Dan Goncharoff]

The article was written in English about a report written in Swedish.

I would focus on who made the translation before blaming CNN instead of,
say, the Swedish Navy.

DanG

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> The article was written in English, not Swedish, by somebody who doesn't
> know what "U-boat" means.
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> "Uba*t" is irrelevant - except to confuse them further.
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> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:40 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > (a* = <a> with superscript circle; Scandinavian vowels are weird, naja!)
> > Deutsch: U-Boot, Uboot (kurz fuer Unterseeboot).
> > Svenska: uba*t, kortform av undervattensba*t.
> > Dansk: u-ba*d (undervandsba*d).
> > Norsk: undervannsba*t (ofte forkortet uba*t).
> > These all refer to submarines in general, not just to WW1 or WW2 German
> > submarines exclusively, as we are wont to do.
> > Russkij submarine: podvodnaja lodka (podlodka, PL, submarina).
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