Re: [ANNOUNCE] Senora: a replacement for sqlplus

From: Frank <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 14:04:41 +0200
Message-ID: <3E995259.6070708@netscape.net>

Phil Britton wrote:
> Karsten Farrell <kfarrell_at_belgariad.com> writes:
>
>

>>fvanbortel_at_netscape.net said...
>>
>>>Hans Forbrich wrote:
>>>
>>>>>Cool! And in English, we've adopted a few German words ... like the
>>>>>Southern California fast-food chain, der Wienerschnitzel ... they need a
>>>>>very long building to display their name. Why do Germans feel compelled
>>>>>to string a dozen words together into one word? <vbg> Hopefully, my
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Because it's much simpler.
>>>>
>>>>You take the paragraph that describes an object, trim white space and
>>>>capitalize.  Then you don't need to spend any time teaching what the new
>>>>thing is - it basically comes with a built-in definition & possibly even a
>>>>built-in manual.
>>>>
>>>>One negative side effect ... we (of German background) do tend to be verbose
>>>>and go on and on and .......
>>>>
>>>
>>>Patentzuckerluxusbonbonmitedelholzhandgriffe...
>>>Hauptstaatseisenbahnknotenpunkthinundherschieber...
>>>Grossrechner, schnittstelle, Datenverarbeitungsanlage
>>>
>>
>>Wow! Exactly! Can you just see the SELECT statement:
>>
>>select Patentzuckerluxusbonbonmitedelholzhandgriffe
>>from Hauptstaatseisenbahnknotenpunkthinundherschieber
>>where Grossrechner = Datenverarbeitungsanlage;
>>
>>Not knowing multi-syllabic German, I'm not sure what I just selected! 
>>German newspapers must love justifying lines with words like those. :)

>
>
> I think you'd get a table doesn't exist error. I'm pretty sure the
> original poster meant to use:
>
> Hauptstadtseisenbahnknotenpunkthinundherschieber
>
> Unless using Hauptstaat... instead of Hauptstadt... was a Freudian
> slip :-) i.e "...ueber alles" etc.
>
> (I'm afraid only german speakers will understand most of this)
>
> cheers
>
> Phil

Nope - Haupt StaatsEisenBahn.... Head State Railways.., etc. etc. The first two are actually jokes, brought forward by my german teacher, for just the same reason; the first is a lolli (lollipop, popsicle), the second a railway switch operator (senior, I might add). All other terms are official german computer related vocabulary: mainframe (literally: big calulator),
interface (literally: crossing place),
processing unit (literally: data processing place)

French has the same kind of "purifications", btw: ordinateur for computer, but that's another thread.

-- 
Regards, Frank van Bortel

Received on Sun Apr 13 2003 - 07:04:41 CDT