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> In the USA, a "tank" refers to a "main battle tank", Lol, not sure if you’re trolling here, but that’s a recursive definition.
by kortilla 5y ago
> In the USA, a "tank" refers to a "main battle tank",
Lol, not sure if you’re trolling here, but that’s a recursive definition.
- dragontamer 5y agoSo "tank" is just a weasel word that poorly translates between cultures and languages. But "Main Battle Tank" translates correctly. A German Flakpanzer could be called a "German Panzer", and you can translate that to mean "German Tank" in one sense, but a Flakpanzer is NOT what the USA would ever call a tank. But if we start with the term "Main Battle Tank", or "MBT" instead, then no, the Flakpanzer is NOT a MBT. The German MBT is the Leopard 2. ------ So MBT is the more technical and proper term.
- Beldin 5y agoMy reading was this should be read as "the colloquial term X is typically used to designate objects that fall in military jargon in the class Y". That is: GP translates from colloquial to jargon. Since these are different, in particular, semantics of words change, this definition is not recursive.