Re: Ship Prefix's

 I have just been informed (a.k.a.  I bugged one of my native German
speeking co-workers) that "schwebepanzer" would be the correct term as
"schwebepanzerkampfwagen" contained a bit more information than needed.

S. Ford

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Han <jerry@uunet.ca>
To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk <FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk>
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 1997 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: Ship Prefix's

>Allan Goodall wrote:
>> I seem to remember (as a kid, for a story I was writing) deducing
that
>> "hovertank" in German would be "schwebepanzer" or (more accurately)
>> "schwebepanzerkampfwagen". I'd imagine that the NSL would use this
term
for
>> their GEVs.
>
>Thank God 'panzer' is an appropriate slang term.  (My German is from a
two
>week trip to West Germany in 1987.  Schwebepanzerkampfwagen?  Gah. 
(8-) )
>
>J.
>
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