Harmony Remotes - Hardware

[hhatkin]

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NetSecond wrote:

....we have long words but they are some times shorter....

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Such as the comical use of the word "handy" to mean a mobile telephone.

Mother to child - "come here and hold my handy while we cross the road"!

[NetSecond]

But its shorter ....

Another example:

Remote conrol => Fernbedienung

Medal of honour => Ehrenmedallie => direct translation (and longer): Medallie der Ehre

Sometimes you have to speak round the point in english ....

I don´t like "handy" too but we say handy.

Please give me your mobile phone.

Please give me your handy.

Bitte gib mir dein mobiles Telefon.

Bitte gib mir dein Handy.

I think, the word "handy" was really created, when the digital mobile phone standard was born, because we had mobile phones before too but they were much bigger and not really "handy" ....

[listener]

...and another example (it's already in the title of the post):

german: akku    english: rechargeable batteries

Greetings

listener

[hhatkin]

Handy and akku sound particularly out of place, as they're such childish words in such a macho language!

I do like fernsehen though - much better pure germanic (small g) than our hybrid of Greek and Latin.

Message Edited by hhatkin on 10-29-2008 05:09 PM