Thursday 3 November 2016

General Chirmen

Translation is not an easy field, and knowing a language is not enough if you are not also knowledgeable in the field. Otherwise, you get gems like this:


"It is necessary to know the characteristics of the following tanks: Russian tanks: T-60, T-70, KV-1. American tanks: 31-T General Chirmen."

It took me a few seconds to figure out what this was supposed to be, but thankfully the original wasn't too far away.


At least it's better than "35 ton tanks" we saw in a previous article.
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6 comments:

  1. critical mass4 November 2016 at 07:15

    You browse the soviet archive of captured german documents:

    http://wwii.germandocsinrussia.org/de/nodes/1-bestand-500

    Please consider to make a correct announcement, which of the documents You use.

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    1. Kellomies4 November 2016 at 07:36

      Uh, it's kinda bloody obvious to anyone who reads the article. The part where the passage referred to as "the original" is *in German* somewhat gives it away...

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  2. critical mass4 November 2016 at 09:10

    Omitting the reference to any used source represents a serious research mistake. Since the material in "Bestand 500" has been digitized and is openly accessible, it wouldn´t be too difficult to reference the information.

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  3. Peter4 November 2016 at 12:23

    Is there anything at all I can post that you won't complain about?

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  4. critical mass4 November 2016 at 16:07

    I don´t complain. Of course, You are free to reject suggestions like this.

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