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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2006-03-15 05:01 pm

Undone by German!

Today I got an e-mail announcing a "keyword regen". I racked my brains trying to figure out what shutting down our client had to do with rain until I realised they needed to regenerate the keyword index.

Later, I was working on a Japanese book titled Betonamu no gendaishi. Until I looked at the subject headings, it didn't occur to me that I held in my hand a modern history of Vietnam. I thought it had something to do with cement.

[identity profile] aadroma.livejournal.com 2006-03-16 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, the weather channel talked about a chance of keyword rain today. :: chuckle ::

I wouldn't've ever made the same connection that you did with Betonamu -- like I ever had a reason to use the German word for "cement" ^^;;;;

[identity profile] muckefuck.livejournal.com 2006-03-16 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
But it's not just German! It's used all over Europe, from Russia (бетон) to France (béton) and from Finland (betoni) to Turkey (beton). It's even used in Indonesia!

Boy....

[identity profile] pacotelic.livejournal.com 2006-03-16 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Everybody wants to turn that country into a parking lot.

[identity profile] muckefuck.livejournal.com 2006-03-16 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
La la la...