[Ads-l] "Loggen Sie sich ein!"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Na, und?

Einloggen means to log in, and is as meaningful in German as "to log in" is
in English. In fact, the root is the same: "loggen" means to log, IOW, to
record the speed of a ship by trailing a device, which also became the name
of the register in which the speed was recorded (the log) which became a
synonym for any register, including an electronic one.

DanG

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