From: Marko Mäkelä (marko.makela_at_hut.fi)
Date: 2005-06-17 10:38:14
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:24:55AM +0200, Grósz Attila wrote:
> Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
>
> >"verkennen". These are quite different words.
> >
> >What I wanted to tell: The drive head is in a mechanical position where
> >it cannot move anymore. It is mechanically stuck.
> >
> >
> >
> I guess the appropriate word in English would then be "seek" here :-)
No, I'd say "stuck behind an edge", as the base word "Kante" is "edge" in
English. Hmm, http://dict.leo.org says that "verkannten" is "to cant",
and the free English dictionaries installed on my Debian GNU/Linux
system seem to suggest that it might be the correct translation.
Sometimes, there are no word-for-word translations. Even when there are,
in international audience it is better to explain using more common words.
(I didn't know either word "verkannten" or "to cant", but I guessed it
right via "Kante" from the German word. I wouldn't have guessed it from
the English word, because English is so irregular language.)
Marko
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