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Ah, nice! I guess all languages have legions of these. In Norway, dell sold computers with “brannkabel”, or “burn cable” [1]. [1] IEEE 1394 — FireWire.
by elygre 7y ago
Ah, nice! I guess all languages have legions of these. In Norway, dell sold computers with “brannkabel”, or “burn cable” [1].
[1] IEEE 1394 — FireWire.
- toyg 7y agoConsidering the eventual hackability of Firewire, maybe the translation was prescient... you’re gonna get burnt by that cable!
- ejolto 7y agoThat makes no sense in context of Norwegian as "get burnt by" is an English idiom. Closest Norwegian equivalent to getting burnt I can think of is "å få lang nese" which translates into "to get a long nose", e.g. you get a long nose when someone tricks you. So in that case the cable should be called IEEE 1394 — LongNose. Translation is difficult..
- jimnotgym 7y agoWould it be normal to not translate these into languages that share the Latin alphabet at least?