translation needed
Loren Allen Billings
BILLINGS at PUCC.BITNET
Tue Jan 17 22:18:57 UTC 1995
Actually, I believe that Prof. Derbyshire meant _p/b_ (as in the unvoiced
bilabial stop before the slash). My _Slovar' sokrashenii_ lists one
possible solution: _plavuchaia baza_, some sort of floating dock, from
what I can tell. (Incidentally, there appears to be nothing in the
_Voenno-morskoi slovar'_ that resembles _p/b_.) Thus, the combination
_kapitan p/b_ could mean the skipper of a seagoing dock of some sort.
As for _rambus_, RAM (random-access memory) is translated in the _Slovar'
po programirovaniiu_ (approximate title) as either _operativnaia pamiat'_
OR _operativno-zapominaiushchee ustroistvo_, the latter abbreviated as
_OZU_; and BUS as either _shina_ or _magistral'_. Who knew!
I hope this helps, Bill. --Loren A. Billings (billings at princeton.edu)
As a postscript, John Dingley informed me at AATSEEL that my spelling
on SEELANGS had gone from bad to worse. I hope this is an improvement.
--LAB
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