[Ads-l] U-boat

[Herb Stahlke]

The last time the Swedes suspected a Russian sub in the Swedish Baltic they
turned out to be mink.  This was commemorated in, IIRC, 1992, in Stockholm
with an advertizing stunt.  I think it was a coffee company the built a
model of a submarine surfacing through the bricks in a wide sidewalk on a
main drag going downtown.  I have a photo of it somewhere.



On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> The article was written in English about a report written in Swedish.
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> I would focus on who made the translation before blaming CNN instead of,
> say, the Swedish Navy.
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> DanG
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> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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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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> > JL
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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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