| Post 13 made on Saturday November 3, 2018 at 16:01 |
Ernie Gilman Yes, That Ernie! |
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buzz,
Rob worked it out!
The "diode" part is not a mistranslation. I looked at a site where this is featured, and put up the German version -- they simply use the word "diode" for this, and it happens that they didn't come up with some clunky German word for diode... they just used diode.
I say that because German is known to allow and live with word invention. The first such word I ran across was "ticket window where you buy a ticket to go a long distance on a train," even though not all of those exact word parts were used in the German word.
The word is Fernverkehrfahrkartenschalter.
If they had done THAT with "diode," it probably would have come out like "two-wire-unidirectionally-conducting-semiconductor-device." That's how they make up words in German.
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