Re: Verkantet in English

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_grex.cyberspace.org)
Date: 2005-07-18 06:06:03 

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote:

> 
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:50:07PM -0400, William Levak wrote:
> > I met a guy today that is a native German speaker and speaks English very
> > well and is also familiar with computer terms.  I asked him what
> > "verkantet" means as a floppy error.  He said "not recognized".  The root
> > word is the verb "kennen" which means to "know" or "recognize", with the
> > prefix "ver" which means "not".  That seems to be the most reasonable
> > explanation I have seen so far.
> 
> "Verkantet" is not a computer term, it's a term from mechanics (and in general
> life). As already described, its stem comes from "Kante" which means edge.
> "Verkantet" means that something is slightly tilted so that it doesn't fit.
> You can find it in the German/English online dictionary on www.leo.org:


Yes, he mentioned that term, but said it didn't really apply as a floppy 
error.

>     http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed&relink=on&sectHdr=on&spellToler=std&search=verkanten
> 
> (the URL on one line). Or try
> 
>     http://dict.leo.org/?lang=de&lp=ende
> 
> and enter "verkanten" in the input box.

He also mentioned leo, but it does not seem to have computer specific 
terms.


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