Munir you know better than to feed that particular silly troll... On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Munir Nassar <tclug at beitsahour.net> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 16:20, Chuck Cole <cncole at earthlink.net> wrote: > > Check the web and correct those sources. This is not my invention: I > used several web references to refresh my memories from German and > linguistics. This is prevalent, if not entirely precise and accurate. > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006_December_11 > > i have read the above reference and all it is people recalling, as you > did, hearing or reading about this word but no actual citations to > bodies of work using this word. > > > > > My German teacher back in college is where I first heard this, and later > in linguistic refrences. Perhaps you don't have enough gray hair. This > *is* a linguist's issue, and you say that is not your strength. Long > concatenations were common German usage 40 or more years ago, but I would > not be surprised to find that modern usage has moved away from that as > technology lingo became more commonplace and concatenation too cumbersome. > > > > Sorry, but yours is the specious and undocumented bullshit. > > While not orthodox, i did fact check my arguments against the German > and English wikipedia. I ask you to refute at least one of my > arguments before dismissing them. > > As for my German, it has been many years since i have last lived there > but i converse in German with Germans on a regular monthly basis. I > know what these long concatenations are, i even used a common modern > example in one in my arguments. I did not call bullshit on the length > of the word, merely on the fact that the word does not seem to make > sense, and therefore does not seem likely. I also provided a reference > to what the first German tank was called. What part of my argument is > specious? What part of it is undocumented? Do you need me to come to > your house and read the wikipedia articles for you? > > here are the articles that i have read about this,neither even > mentions this word. > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_(1914–1933) > > and here is the article on the LastKraftWagen that i also mentioned as > an example: > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LKW > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Ben Lutgens Linux / Unix System Administror Three of your friends throw up after eating chicken salad. Do you think: "I should find more robust friends" or "we should check that refrigerator"? -- Donald Becker, on vortex-bug, suspecting a network-wide problem -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100630/94a3c679/attachment.htm