Re: Insane modellers (and another GZG...)

Wow, German tank engineers were even crazier than I thought!

Karl, could you give a bit of German-English translation help? I ran
that
Midgard Serpent page (http://www.geocities.com/madsin72/midgard.html)
thru
Babelfish, and mostly understood what it gave back, but it also left me
with the following line: "580 large pressluftflaschen and a large nebula
thrower".

What on earth is a nebula thrower? Or rather, what should Babelfish have
translated the original German as? This is in the third paragraph of the
page, right after the lines about the 3000hp engines & 960m3 fuel
capacity. The orginal German seems to be "580 grosse Pressluftflaschen
und einen grossen Nebelwerfer geben".

Babelfish is good for getting the general points of a non-English page,
but it often fails in the details - especially when it tries to
translate
military terms & such!

Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
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