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>The aerospike engine has been the saint grail for rocket scientists since its was first theorized in the 50’s. 'saint grail' ...
by 8bitsrule 5y ago
>The aerospike engine has been the saint grail for rocket scientists since its was first theorized in the 50’s.
'saint grail' ...
- lcrz 5y agoThe automated translation is pretty noticeable.
- kleton 5y agoSanto Grial in Spanish, I suspect neural machine translate would have translated their press release into more idiomatic English.
- 8bitsrule 5y agoTurns out that was actually a thing: 'the line of messianic descent was defined by the French word Sangréal.... In English translation, the definition, Sangréal, became "San Gréal", as in "San" Francisco. When written more fully it was written "Saint Grail", "Saint", of course, relating to "Holy"; and by a natural linguistic process came the more romantically familiar name, "Holy Grail".'
- dylan604 5y agoNice to see Dan Brown in our midst.
- taneq 5y agoAnd here was me thinking Wheel of Time and their "sa'angreals".
- ryzvonusef 5y agoepisodes are out!
- tsimionescu 5y agoThat's just bad etymology. The word/expression Saint Graal in Old French. Saint was translated into English directly as Holy, while Graal was adopted as is morphing into grail. It seems the etymology for graal is likely ultimately Ancient Greek krater, a type of wine bowl. The 'sang real' (royal bloodline) nonsense was a much later invention (15th century).
- roveo 5y agoIn many languages "saint" and "holy" are the same word.