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Posted by Reinhard Zwirner on May 4, 2010, 5:49 pm


"Gene E. Bloch" schrieb:
>
> On Tue, 4 May 2010 12:30:09 -0400, LightByrd wrote:
>
[...]
> >> Wild guess: Deuscheland, Austria, Confoederatio Helvetica (aka
> >> Switzerland).
> > Deuscheland, Austria, Czech, Helvetica??
>
> No, CH for Switzerland is correct - look at the national tag on European
> cars, for instance. It does stand for Confederatio Helvetica, in my
> streamlined version of the Latin spelling; my Latin dictionary agrees with
> LightByrd, not with me :-)

But the "D" stands for Deu_t_schland ...

SCNR

Reinhard

Posted by Gene E. Bloch on May 4, 2010, 7:09 pm


On Tue, 04 May 2010 23:49:40 +0200, Reinhard Zwirner wrote:

> "Gene E. Bloch" schrieb:
>>
>> On Tue, 4 May 2010 12:30:09 -0400, LightByrd wrote:
>>
> [...]
>>>> Wild guess: Deuscheland, Austria, Confoederatio Helvetica (aka
>>>> Switzerland).
>>> Deuscheland, Austria, Czech, Helvetica??
>>
>> No, CH for Switzerland is correct - look at the national tag on European
>> cars, for instance. It does stand for Confederatio Helvetica, in my
>> streamlined version of the Latin spelling; my Latin dictionary agrees with
>> LightByrd, not with me :-)
>
> But the "D" stands for Deu_t_schland ...
>
> SCNR
>
> Reinhard

Ja, dass habe ich gewusst, but it was a spelling error, maybe even just two
slips of the keyboard, and so, in a rare moment of generosity, I let it go
:-)

Feel free to correct my Deusche (just kidding!) above - it seems I've
forgotten a bit since 1951...

--
Gene E. Bloch

Posted by Reinhard Zwirner on May 5, 2010, 6:12 pm


"Gene E. Bloch" schrieb:
>
> On Tue, 04 May 2010 23:49:40 +0200, Reinhard Zwirner wrote:

[...]
> > But the "D" stands for Deu_t_schland ...
> > SCNR
> > Reinhard
>
> Ja, dass habe ich gewusst, but it was a spelling error, maybe even just two
> slips of the keyboard, and so, in a rare moment of generosity, I let it go
> :-)

Hi Gene,

Be assured: there's no problem at all! I just couldn't resist ... ;-)

Bye

Reinhard

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